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| US10210274B2 |
Method, system and computer product for filtering audience viewing of URL data utilizing hashtags
A computer implemented method for filtering audience viewing of uniform resource locator (URL) data utilizing hashtags including: identifying a hashtag input by a first user; identifying at least one user preference of the first user, the at least one user preference related to data sharing preferences of the first user on an electronic platform; generating a uniform resource locator (URL) based on the identified hashtag and the identified at least one user preference of the first user; and using the URL, filtering data communication on the electronic platform, thereby displaying a privatized stream of data when the first user accesses the identified hashtag, the privatized stream of data accessible by a second user, the second user being authorized to view the privatized stream of data based on the data sharing preferences of the first user. |
| US10210273B2 |
Active regions of an image with accessible links
A computer device to generate an image with content and create active regions at locations or coordinates of the image including the content. The computing device associates the active regions with accessible links corresponding to the content. |
| US10210272B1 |
Window query monitoring for mobile devices and central database servers with a tree-like index
Systems and methods for performing a mobile window query are provided. A method can include transmitting a mobile window query, determining which interest point falls within a query window, defining a potential safe region, refining the safe region utilizing the surrounding interest points, and returning the interest points and safe region to a user. |
| US10210271B2 |
Dynamic language translation of web site content
Methods, systems, and computer readable medium for providing a translated message in telecommunications. A request is received for translating a current message in a first language into a current message in a second language destined for a user. Whether the current message in the first language has been previously translated into a corresponding message in the second language is determined. If the corresponding message in the second language exists, the current message in the second language is generated based on the corresponding message in the second language previously translated. The current message is then sent in the second language to the user as a response to the request. |
| US10210270B2 |
Translation of user requests into itinerary solutions
A method for translating user requests into itinerary solutions is disclosed. The method may commence with receiving an itinerary request associated with one or more passengers. The method may continue with parsing the itinerary request to create an itinerary network associated with the itinerary request. The itinerary network may include at least two or more nodes and dependencies between two or more nodes. Upon the parsing, a topology of the itinerary network may be created. The method may include processing the itinerary network using the topology to create a plurality of tuples. The plurality of tuples may be analyzed. The method may continue with determining feasible itinerary solutions based on the analysis. The feasible itinerary solutions may be ranked. The method may further include presenting, to the one or more passengers, at least one itinerary solution selected from the feasible itinerary solutions based on the ranking. |
| US10210268B2 |
Relationship networks having link quality metrics with inference and concomitant digital value exchange
In a digital social relationship network, a social network server computer stores a digital social network representation corresponding to a graph having nodes representing individuals or groups and links representing actual social relationships between the individuals or groups. The server computer obtains relationship-dependent information corresponding to a plurality of links of the graph, and embeds the relationship-dependent information in the digital social network representation stored in the social network server computer. The server computer interactively presents to a user of a client computer connected to the social network server computer a social network of the individuals or groups and the social relationships between the individuals or groups. The social network server computer receives input from the user of the client computer selecting at least one of the social relationships between individuals or groups other than the user, and presents to the user of the client computer a social relationship profile comprising the relationship-dependent information corresponding to the social relationship selected by the user of the client computer. The server computer facilitates exchange of digital value to the user of the client computer, or a group to which the user of the client computer belongs, based on the relationship-dependent information embedded in the digital social network representation stored in the social network server computer. |
| US10210262B2 |
Systems and methods to identify a filter set in a query comprised of keywords
Systems and methods to identify a filter set in a keyword query are described. The system receives a query from a client machine. The system identifies filter sets based on the query and a based on rules. The filter sets include a first filter set that includes a first filter. The rules are utilized to associate at the least one keyword from the query to the first filter. The system further scores the filter sets based on probabilities to generate scores. The probabilities describe occurrences of attribute-value pairs in listings that respectively describe items that were previously transacted on a network-based marketplace. The system further identifies the first filter set from the filter sets based on the scores, generates a user interface including search results that are identified based on the identified first filter set, and communicates the user interface, over the network, to the client machine. |
| US10210261B2 |
Ranking and filtering groups recommendations
In one embodiment, a set of user groups of a social-networking system may be accessed. A first subset of the user groups may be determined for a particular user of the social-networking system, based on one or more filtering criteria. A number of recommendation-source processes may be applied to the first subset to determine a number of second subsets of the first set. Each recommendation-source process may represent a particular recommendation source. The second subsets may be combined into a list of user groups. The list of user groups may be ranked, and sent to the particular user. |
| US10210259B2 |
Contributor characteristic based tag clouds
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to the visual display of tags and provide a method, system and computer program product for contributor characteristic based tag clouds. In an embodiment of the invention, a tag cloud generation method can include loading tags for resources in a social bookmarking system, determining a personal characteristic for each of the end users applying the tags to the resources, and rendering a tag cloud for the tags based upon the personal characteristic of the end users and not based upon the frequency of use of the tags alone. |
| US10210257B2 |
Apparatus and method for determining user attention using a deep-content-classification (DCC) system
A method and system for determining a user attention to a multimedia data element (MMDE) displayed in a web-page over a user computing device. The method includes generating, based on at least one sensory signal captured by at least one sensor communicatively connected to the computing device, at least one signature; querying, using the generated at least one signature, a deep-content-classification (DCC) system for at least one concept structure matching the received at least one sensory signal, wherein each of the at least one concept structure includes metadata associated with a plurality of signature reduced clusters representing MMDEs; identifying the metadata of the matching at least one concept structure; and analyzing the identified metadata to determine an attention of a user to the MMDE. |
| US10210252B2 |
Method and apparatus for multi-dimensional content search and video identification
A multi-dimensional database and indexes and operations on the multi-dimensional database are described which include video search applications or other similar sequence or structure searches. Traversal indexes utilize highly discriminative information about images and video sequences or about object shapes. Global and local signatures around keypoints are used for compact and robust retrieval and discriminative information content of images or video sequences of interest. For other objects or structures relevant signature of pattern or structure are used for traversal indexes. Traversal indexes are stored in leaf nodes along with distance measures and occurrence of similar images in the database. During a sequence query, correlation scores are calculated for single frame, for frame sequence, and video clips, or for other objects or structures. |
| US10210247B2 |
Generating word clouds
A computer-implemented method includes identifying an information resource. The information resource includes text information. The information resource includes a contribution from an entry source. The entry source is associated with a profile. The profile includes at least one profile information item that describes the entry source. The method includes generating a first word cloud. The first word cloud is based on one or more words used within the text information. The first word cloud includes a first plurality of words. The method includes generating a second word cloud. The second word cloud is based on at least one profile information item. The second word cloud includes a second plurality of words. |
| US10210246B2 |
Techniques for similarity analysis and data enrichment using knowledge sources
The present disclosure relates to performing similarity metric analysis and data enrichment using knowledge sources. A data enrichment service can compare an input data set to reference data sets stored in a knowledge source to identify similarly related data. A similarity metric can be calculated corresponding to the semantic similarity of two or more datasets. The similarity metric can be used to identify datasets based on their metadata attributes and data values enabling easier indexing and high performance retrieval of data values. A input data set can labeled with a category based on the data set having the best match with the input data set. The similarity of an input data set with a data set provided by a knowledge source can be used to query a knowledge source to obtain additional information about the data set. The additional information can be used to provide recommendations to the user. |
| US10210244B1 |
Updating natural language interfaces by processing usage data
A third-party company may assist companies in providing natural language interfaces for their customers. To implement a natural language interface for a company, a configuration may be received that includes information, such as a list intents, seed messages for the intents, and hierarchical information of the intents. An intent classifier may be trained using the configuration, and the natural language interface may be deployed for use with customers. Usage data of the natural language classifier may be collected and used to improve the natural language interface. Messages corresponding to an intent may be clustered into clusters of similar messages, and a prototype message may be obtained for each cluster to provide a human understandable description of the cluster. The information about the clusters may be used to improve the natural language interface, such as by creating a new intent with a cluster or moving a cluster to a different intent. |
| US10210241B2 |
Full text indexing in a database system
A method for indexing with redundant information. The method may identify unknown code points for a document in response to an indexing request for the document. The method may further convert the identified unknown code points into a plurality of converted code points. Each set of converted code points of the plurality uses a different codepage. The method may further identify sets of same code points and sets of redundant code points from the plurality of converted code points. The method may build an index based on the sets of same code points and the sets of redundant code points. |
| US10210220B2 |
System and method for fault tolerant queries
Fault tolerant querying of data distributed across multiple nodes is accomplished by each node determining and reporting its own health status and indexing status to the other nodes in the cluster via a gossip protocol. A coordinator node then prioritizes replica nodes based on the received status of the other nodes and sends query requests to those nodes based on the prioritization. Should a node fail to provide an response to a query request, further query requests are sent to a next highest priority replica node containing the relevant data. This results in improved query performance by avoiding busy nodes and further provides a fault tolerant approach to data queries. |
| US10210211B2 |
Code searching and ranking
A method, computerized apparatus and computer program product for providing a code segment in response to a query, the method comprising using at least one hardware processor for: receiving a multiplicity of code segments and meta data related to the code segments; analyzing each code segment of the multiplicity of code segments, said analyzing comprising: semantically analyzing the code segment to obtain a first rank, structurally analyzing the code segment to obtain a second rank, and analyzing the meta data associated with the code segment to obtain a third rank; combining the first rank, second rank and third rank into a total rank associated with the code segment; receiving a query; matching the query to each of the multiplicity of code segments to identify matching code segments; and providing the matching code segments in accordance with total ranks associated with each of the matching code segments. |
| US10210208B2 |
Viewable suggestions for federation engine
Methods, systems, and computer program products for converting a query to a canonical query; inserting the query and the canonical query into a database; searching one or more viewable sets stored in the database to determine whether the canonical query is similar to one or more canonical queries associated with the one or more viewable sets; and upon determining a similar canonical query, returning a first view suggestion associated with a first viewable set of the one or more viewable sets that includes the similar canonical query. |
| US10210205B1 |
System independent configuration management database identification system
Disclosed herein are various systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing a system independent Configuration Management Database identification system. In an implementation, a dynamic identification system correlates records of an originating system with records of an Authoritative Configuration Management Database (CMDB) including a set of one or more identifying rules that define a minimum amount of information in order to generate an identifying signature that serves as a common reference between a record of the originating system with a matching Configuration Item (CI) record of the ACMDB, receiving, from the originating system, information to generate an identifying signature, determining that the generated first identifying signature matches a stored identifying signature, and correlating the first record of the originating system corresponding with the generated first identifying signature with the one of the CI records of the ACMDB corresponding with the matching one of the identifying signatures. |
| US10210202B2 |
Recognition of free-form gestures from orientation tracking of a handheld or wearable device
A user performs a gesture with a hand-held or wearable device capable of sensing its own orientation. Orientation data, in the form of a sequence of rotation vectors, is collected throughout the duration of the gesture. To construct a trace representing the shape of the gesture and the direction of device motion, the orientation data is processed by a robotic chain model with four or fewer degrees of freedom, simulating a set of joints moved by the user to perform the gesture (e.g., a shoulder and an elbow). To classify the gesture, a trace is compared to contents of a training database including many different users' versions of the gesture and analyzed by a learning module such as support vector machine. |
| US10210198B2 |
Dynamic result set caching with a database accelerator
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system for processing a database query stores one or more result sets for one or more first database queries in a data store. The system receives a second database query and compares the second database query to the one or more first database queries to determine presence of a corresponding result set in the data store for the second database query. The system provides the corresponding result set from the data store for the second database query based on the comparison. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for processing a database query in substantially the same manners described above. |
| US10210195B2 |
Locating data in a set with a single index using multiple property values
Indexing objects in a datastore, where the objects are characterized by a set of object properties. For objects from a datastore: a Bloom filter for the object properties, based on a predetermined Bloom filter configuration, is created; the Hamming value of the Bloom filter is determined; a binary logarithm of the Bloom filter is calculated; and the Bloom filter, the Hamming value, the binary logarithm, and a representation of the object is stored in the datastore. |
| US10210192B2 |
Capacity accounting for heterogeneous storage systems
Techniques to account for storage consumption and capacity allocation across heterogeneous storage objects are disclosed. A capacity accountability system can ascertain a set of heterogeneous storage objects provisioned for a storage consumer, where the heterogeneous storage objects is categorized by storage object hierarchy levels. The capacity accountability system can then identify an association between the storage consumer and a storage object hierarchy level and account for storage object consumption and storage capacity allocation of the storage consumer by normalizing storage consumption data and capacity allocation data at the storage object hierarchy level across the heterogeneous storage objects. |
| US10210190B1 |
Roll back of scaled-out data
A computing resource monitoring service detects an issue with processing of metrics data. The metrics data is stored in observation journals within an observation journal logical data container. A computing resource service provider may configure a map reduce processor to select a prior version of an index file, the index file comprising a mapping of the metrics data stored within a metric store and a manifest comprising a listing of all processed observation journals. The map reduce processor may identify newly unprocessed observation journals and process these journals in order to generate new data objects and a new version of an index. Subsequently, an index pointer may be modified such that obsolete versions of the index are removed and the map reduce processor refers to a different version of the index file in order to support future roll back of metrics data. |
| US10210189B2 |
Root cause analysis of performance problems
A method for analyzing performance of a computer system where at a plurality of time intervals, a set of KPIs of a database and database performance outputs are monitored. A database performance value is calculated based on the monitored KPIs and one or more database performance outputs. In response to determining the database performance value is below a first threshold, a KPI correlation coefficient is calculated. The calculated KPI correlation coefficient with the greatest value is selected as a target KPI. In response to determining that a count of functions of the target KPI meets a second threshold, a dynamic tabular representation of the determined target KPI is generated. A correlation matrix is generated based on the generated tabular representation and the plurality of time intervals and a first set of target functions are identified based on the generated correlation matrix. |
| US10210186B2 |
Data processing method and system and client
A data processing method and system and a client, where a target storage node is determined in a manner of comparing a second vector of received data and first vectors that are corresponding to all storage nodes and prestored on the client that receives the data, and the target storage node no longer needs to be determined in a manner of extracting some fingerprint values as samples from received data and sending the fingerprint values to all storage nodes in a data processing system for query, and waiting for a feedback from the storage nodes. |
| US10210185B2 |
GINA service orchestration
When users, whether human or machine, want information, it is often unimportant to them where that information resides. A collection of information aggregation environments, such as the Universal Information Object Management Environment of the specification, becomes far more useful to users if information aggregated in one environment is easily aggregated by another. By assigning a virtual globally unique identifier to each object that is made available by any information aggregator in a way that captures the information necessary to get that information from the information aggregator in a common way, all of the information aggregation environments can use any of the data in any information aggregation environment transparently. |
| US10210182B2 |
Image search with historical user activity metadata
Provided are techniques for image search with historical user activity metadata. Activity of a user is continuously captured to generate historical user activity metadata. In response to an image being taken, a range of historical user activity metadata to associate with the image is selected, wherein the historical user activity metadata for the period of time forms a historical time line that becomes searchable metadata of the image. In response to a request for any images taken during the range, the image is located using the searchable historical user activity metadata. |
| US10210181B2 |
Searching and annotating within images
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for searching within images. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a query from a user device; receiving a query image from the user device; identifying a result image responsive to the query; determining that an object depicted in a sub-portion of the query image is similar to the result image; and in response to determining that the object depicted in the sub-portion of the query image is similar to the result image: providing annotation data to the user device that causes the user device to display an annotation with the query image, the annotation specifying the sub-portion of the query image that includes the object that is similar to the result image. |
| US10210180B2 |
Hybrid nearest neighbor search tree with hashing table
Techniques related to approximate nearest neighbor searching are discussed. Such techniques may include traversing an approximate nearest neighbor search tree from root node to a resultant leaf node while maintaining a priority queue of best matches, determining candidate entries for evaluation based on the resultant leaf node, and generating search results based on the priority queue and the candidate entries. |
| US10210176B2 |
Information provision system
An information provision system includes: a vehicular mobile terminal; and a server that accesses a registration database and provides a content to the vehicular mobile terminal. The registration database registers a position-interrelated content provision web page that: specifies the content to be provided according to an input condition; and defines a position-interrelated content to be provided when the vehicular mobile terminal satisfies a trigger condition. The system further includes: a position-interrelated content search device that searches for the position-interrelated content corresponding to a same trigger condition as a moving state of the vehicular mobile terminal when the vehicular mobile terminal accesses the position-interrelated content provision web page and the position-interrelated content provision web page defines the position-interrelated content for the vehicular mobile terminal; and an information provision device that provides a user of the vehicular mobile terminal with a searched position-interrelated content when the trigger condition is satisfied. |
| US10210174B2 |
Enforcing consistency of file to storage node mapping
Systems and methods for enforcing consistency of file to storage node mappings in distributed file systems. An example method may include: receiving a request to perform a file operation with respect to a file associated with a volume of a distributed file system; identifying, among a plurality of storage nodes of the distributed file system, a storage node associated with the file; obtaining a lock of a layout of the volume; and responsive to determining, by a processing device, that a directory layout version number matches a volume layout version number, performing the requested file operation with respect to the file. |
| US10210172B1 |
File system integration and synchronization between client and server
In one example embodiment, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer executable program code which, when executed on a computer system, causes the computer system to perform a number of steps. The steps include receiving, at an application server, metadata representing at least one file system stored on a file storage system based on an application executing on the application server, preventing, at the application server, files associated with the file storage system from being downloaded to the application server, monitoring, by the application server, a request to open a file associated with the file storage system, determining the requested file is stored on the file storage system separate from the application server, and triggering, by the application server, a download of the requested file. |
| US10210168B2 |
Managing data in storage according to a log structure
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for managing data in a storage. Each index entry in and index identifies a log address in the log of one of the records. Each record in the log includes a key and value, and the log addresses map to physical addresses in the storage. A plurality of processed log addresses in the log are processed by determining whether the index indicates that the processed log address includes a current version of the record in the log; adding the record at the processed log address to a selected log address in the log in response to determining that the index indicates that the processed log address comprises the current version of the record; and deleting a record at the physical address in the storage to which the processed log address maps. |
| US10210167B1 |
Multi-level page caching for distributed object store
Techniques are described for managing access to data storage in a plurality of bitstore nodes. In some situations, a data storage service uses multiple bitstore nodes to store data accessible via a network, such as the Internet. In some situations, multi-level cache systems are employed by each bitstore node and managed, for example to increase throughput of the data storage service. |
| US10210160B2 |
Collecting data from different sources
A system for collecting data from different sources is described. In one example embodiment, the system obtains content-related data from a plurality of source computer systems, automatically identifies, based on the content-related data, content items having respective popularity values greater than a predetermined threshold value as popular content items, and automatically generates a list of popular content items based on the popular content items. |
| US10210156B2 |
Seed selection in corpora compaction for natural language processing
A method, system, and computer program product for seed selection in corpora compaction for natural language processing are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A set of initial clusters is formed from a set of documents in a corpus for natural language processing, wherein a subset of documents belong to an initial cluster in the set of initial cluster. A subset of the initial clusters is merged to form a merged cluster. A set of keywords that is representative of the merged cluster is identified. An epicenter of the merged cluster is formed using the set of keywords, the epicenter forming a seed. A document that is a member of the merged cluster is ranked according to a relationship of a taxonomy of the document and the epicenter. |
| US10210152B2 |
Block data worksheets
A display structure that includes data items mapped based on relationships among the data items is visually presented on a user interface. The displayed data includes blocks of data received over a block data interface. The display structure may include a first portion indicative of availability of multiple 2-dimensional views of the data items and a second portion for the user to select one of the multiple 2-dimensional views to become an active view that is viewable by the user. |
| US10210145B2 |
Partial website optimization for a web publisher
A method of delivering webpages to a browser includes delivering a first webpage using a streaming protocol that optimizes delivery of content of the first webpage where the first webpage includes information that may persist in a browser cache; delivering a second webpage without using the streaming protocol where the second webpage and the first webpage both reference a first resource; and forcing revalidation of the first resource stored on the browser cache. |
| US10210143B2 |
Analyzing a click path in a spherical landscape viewport
Generating reports. Identifying user webpage interaction information and source webpage content. Determining a portion of the source code that corresponds to the user webpage interaction information. Determining interactions of the one or more interactions associated with each of a plurality of users. Determining a click path associated with each user. Determining a similarity score between a first and a second source webpage. Determining the similarity score exceeds a threshold value. Combining a portion of each click path associated with the first source webpage with a portion of each click path associated with the second source webpage. Merging a first portion of source code associated with the first source webpage with a second portion of source code associated with the second source webpage. Creating a three-dimensional representation that includes the combined portion of each click path associated with the first and the second webpage and the merged source code. |
| US10210142B1 |
Inserting linked text fragments in a document
In one or more implementations, a digital medium environment includes at least one computing device. Systems and techniques are described herein for inserting linked text fragments in a document layout of a document. By supporting multiple linked text fragments within a text frame, of both constant content and variable content, content of an asset is inserted into a text fragment while preserving the styling attributes of the text frame. Thus, manual efforts associated with reapplying styling attributes are avoided, unlike systems that do not distinguish between text fragments with constant content and text fragments with variable content within a text frame. Furthermore, a user interface is generated that exposes metadata of assets and a document layout. Content of an asset exposed via the user interface, once selected, is inserted into the document layout and exposed as a tagged text fragment, indicating the content is linked. |
| US10210139B2 |
Information processing device and information processing method
An information processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of content information pieces; and a generation unit that generates a page in which the plurality of content information pieces are disposed in accordance with templates regarding configurations of information elements. Further, the generation unit generates the page in a manner that the plurality of content information pieces are lined up in one direction and the plurality of content information pieces lined up in the one direction are separated from each other by one or more diagonal lines to the one direction. |
| US10210136B2 |
Parallel computer and FFT operation method
A storage unit includes first to third storage areas. An operation unit executes, while executing a first process to perform an FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) operation by using the first storage area, a second process to transmit a calculated FFT calculation result stored in the second storage area to other processes and to store an FFT operation result received from said other processes in the third storage area. |
| US10210133B2 |
Virtualizing coherent hardware accelerators
An approach to virtualizing a coherent memory hardware accelerator is provided comprising creating a segment table for a client logical partition (LPAR), wherein a virtual address space is reserved in the segment table, receiving an Input/Output (I/O) request to use the coherent memory hardware accelerator, generating an I/O operation associated with the I/O request, wherein the I/O operation is passed to the coherent memory hardware accelerator, receiving a map request from the coherent memory hardware accelerator, creating an entry in the reserved virtual address space in the segment table, creating a hardware page table map request for mapping a memory address associated with the client LPAR and returning the reserved virtual address space to the coherent memory hardware accelerator, wherein the coherent memory hardware accelerator has remote direct memory access to memory associated with the client LPAR for performing an acceleration of one or more processes. |
| US10210128B2 |
Redirection of lane resources
An apparatus includes a pass-through module that includes connector pins to connect with at least one active portion of a motherboard connector and to separately connect with at least one inactive portion of the motherboard connector. A routing function on the pass-through module redirects a set of bidirectional lanes from the connector pins connected to the active portion of the motherboard connector to the connector pins connected to the inactive portion of the motherboard connector to enable a connection of the set of bidirectional lanes to at least one other motherboard resource connected to the inactive portion of the motherboard connector. |
| US10210120B2 |
Method, apparatus and system to implement secondary bus functionality via a reconfigurable virtual switch
In an embodiment, an apparatus includes: a fabric of a first communication protocol to communicate with an upstream agent in an upstream direction and to communicate with a plurality of downstream agents in a downstream direction; a switch coupled between the fabric and at least some of the plurality of downstream agents, the switch to couple to a primary interface of the fabric via a primary interface of the switch and to communicate with the fabric via the first communication protocol, the switch further including a sideband interface to interface with a sideband fabric of the first communication protocol; and the at least some downstream agents coupled to the switch via the sideband fabric, wherein the at least some downstream agents are to be enumerated with a secondary bus of a second communication protocol, and the switch device is to provide a transaction received from the upstream agent to a first downstream agent based on a bus identifier of the secondary bus with which the first downstream agent is enumerated. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US10210115B2 |
System for handling event messages for file collaboration
A system and method for facilitating client software access to messages, such as event messages, generated in a networked computing environment, such as a file-collaboration system. An example method uses a message bus and accompanying Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to allow collaborators to employ client software to interface with highly scalable and organized message bus records, maintained via an underlying distributed database. The APIs and associated interface allow client software; not limited to collaboration software clients; to efficiently publish to, subscribe to, and obtain information about event records of the message bus. An embodiment allows selective load balancing and deferral of event message processing; efficient message offset handling and data center failover functionality, and so on. |
| US10210110B2 |
Associating data buses and management bus connections for peripheral devices
An apparatus, system, method, and program product are disclosed for associating data buses and management buses for peripheral devices. A command module sends a command to a peripheral device to trigger activity on the peripheral device. The peripheral device is communicatively coupled to an information handling device using a separate data bus and a management bus connection of a management bus. The command is sent over the data bus to the peripheral device. A monitor module checks the management bus of the information handling device to determine which management bus connection is connected to the peripheral device that was active in response to the sent command. An association module associates the determined management bus connection with the data bus on which the command was sent and with the peripheral device. |
| US10210109B2 |
Pre-allocating memory buffers by physical processor and using a bitmap metadata in a control program
Aspects of the present invention include a method, system and computer program product that implements a memory management scheme for each processor in a multiprocessor system. The method includes pre-allocating, for each processor in a multiprocessor system, a set of memory buffers; and implementing a metadata bitmap for each pre-allocated set of memory buffers, wherein the metadata bitmap for each pre-allocated set of memory buffers comprises a plurality of bits, and wherein each of the plurality of bits is indicative of a usage state of a corresponding one of the memory buffers within each pre-allocated set of memory buffers. |
| US10210105B2 |
Inline PCI-IOV adapter
A system for enabling input/out virtualization for a device is disclosed. In one embodiment the system includes a plurality of host CPUs; a multi-root switch connected to each of the plurality of host CPUs via respective buses; and an inline PCI virtualizing device connected to the multi-root switch via a front-side bus and the device via a back-side bus, the inline PCI virtualizing device including a plurality sets of registers, each of the plurality sets of registers accessible by a corresponding host CPU of the plurality of host CPUs and implementing functionalities of the device. |
| US10210104B2 |
Apparatus and method for providing handoff thereof
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a transceiver that communicates with an external electronic device and at least one processor electrically connected with the transceiver. The processor is configured to obtain context information about an operation being performed at the electronic device, to generate identification information about a recommended operation associated with the operation being performed, based on the context information about the operation being performed and to send the identification information about the recommended operation to the external electronic device by using the transceiver. |
| US10210101B2 |
Systems and methods for flushing a cache with modified data
Systems and methods for flushing a cache with modified data are disclosed. Responsive to a request to flush data from a cache with modified data to a next level cache that does not include the cache with modified data, the cache with modified data is accessed using an index and a way and an address associated with the index and the way is secured. Using the address, the cache with modified data is accessed a second time and an entry that is associated with the address is retrieved from the cache with modified data. The entry is placed into a location of the next level cache. |
| US10210100B2 |
Controlling operation of a storage device based on an age indicator of the storage device
A system and method are disclosed for an event lock storage device. The storage device includes a user partition and an event partition (which may be associated with an event). The storage device receives data from a host device, and stores the data in the user partition. In response to receiving an indication of an event, the storage device may designate the data as part of the event partition. The event partition may include a set of access rules that is different from the user partition, such as more restrictive rules for modification or deletion of a file containing the data. |
| US10210089B2 |
Shared buffer management for variable length encoded data
A method and apparatus are provided for controlling data flow by storing variable length encoded information bits in a circular buffer in a write operation to a virtual write address comprising a first wrap bit value appended by a current write address within the buffer address range and generating an interrupt alarm if the virtual write address crosses a virtual alarm address comprising a second wrap bit value appended by an alarm address within the buffer address range, where the first and second wrap bit values each toggle between first and second values every time the current write address or alarm address, respectively, wraps around the circular buffer, thereby synchronizing data flow in the circular buffer and/or preventing buffer overflow. |
| US10210088B2 |
Computing system with a cache invalidation unit, a cache invalidation unit and a method of operating a cache invalidation unit in a computing system
The present application relates to a cache invalidation unit for a computing system having a processor unit, CPU, with a cache memory, a main memory and at least one an alternate bus master unit. The CPU, the main memory and the at least one an alternate bus master unit are coupled via an interconnect for data communications between them. The cache invalidation unit generates one or more invalidation requests to the cache memory in response to the alternate bus master unit writing data to the main memory. The cache invalidation unit comprises a page address generator unit to generate page addresses relating to at least one address range and an invalidation request generator unit to generate an invalidation request for each page address. The one or more generated invalidation requests are transmitted by the cache invalidation unit via to the cache memory of the CPU. |
| US10210082B2 |
Rate matching technique for balancing segment cleaning and I/O workload
A rate matching technique may be configured to adjust a rate of cleaning of one or more selected segments of the storage array to accommodate a variable rate of incoming workload processed by a storage input/output (I/O) stack executing on one or more nodes of a cluster. An extent store layer of the storage I/O stack may clean a segment in accordance with segment cleaning which, illustratively, may be embodied as a segment cleaning process. The rate matching technique may be implemented as a feedback control mechanism configured to adjust the segment cleaning process based on the incoming workload. Components of the feedback control mechanism may include one or more weight schedulers and various accounting data structures, e.g., counters, configured to track the progress of segment cleaning and free space usage. The counters may also be used to balance the rates of segment cleaning and incoming I/O workload, which may change depending upon an incoming I/O rate. When the incoming I/O rate changes, the rate of segment cleaning may be adjusted accordingly to ensure that rates are substantially balanced. |
| US10210081B2 |
Secure garbage collection on a mobile device
Methods and systems for performing garbage collection involving sensitive information on a mobile device are described herein. Secure information is received at a mobile device over a wireless network. The sensitive information is extracted from the secure information. A software program operating on the mobile device uses an object to access the sensitive information. Secure garbage collection is performed upon the object after the object becomes unreachable. |
| US10210079B2 |
Touch free disaster recovery
A Recovery as a Service (RaaS) system including a Configuration Management Database (CMDB), a Resource Planning System (RPS), a Recovery Execution System (RES), and an Asset Reservation System (ARS). A scope for a test or recovery is specified as one or more applications. In one implementation, the RPS can request, from the CMDB, identification of which protected resources are within the requested scope and request the ARS to only reserve assets within that scope. At time of test or disaster, the RES programmatically generates a recovery workflow and initiates its orchestration such as provisioning and/or configuring operating systems, file systems, networks, applications, and data, and executing startup processes. If there are exceptions to automated workflow, then operations personnel may perform corresponding manual operations such as through a ticketing system. |
| US10210078B2 |
Automating manual reconfiguration and verification of a processing unit
Embodiments include methods, reconfiguration and verification systems, and computer program products automating manual reconfiguration and verification process. Aspects include manually configuring processing units (Pus) through LPAR partition's reconfiguration panel using a hardware management console, creating by an computer operating system an MSGLOG API to allow a test program (TP) to communicate with an automation system's automation program (AP), TP generating reconfiguration tests (RT) of PUs and transmitting RTs to AP while holding an MSGLOG API lock, and TP going to sleep for a predetermined time using a sleep timer to allow AP to perform tests, determining whether sleep timer is expired. When sleep timer is expired, print a sleep timer expiration error, and exit. Otherwise, TP obtains states of PUs under RTs, and determine whether results of RTs are correct. When results of RTs are not correct, test program prints reconfiguration test failure error messages, and exit. |
| US10210069B2 |
Real-time hierarchical protocol decoding
Real-time USB class level decoding is disclosed. In some embodiments, a first packet associated with a USB class level operation associated with a target USB device that is being monitored is received. A second packet generated by a USB hardware analyzer configured to observe USB traffic associated with the target USB device is received. It is determined based at least in part on a time associated with one or both of the first packet and the second packet that the class level operation has timed out. |
| US10210067B1 |
Space accounting in presence of data storage pre-mapper
A mapping apparatus comprises a mapper that translates from an input key to an output key in one or more storage devices. A pre-mapper for processing update operations comprises a plurality of mapping tablets and an in-memory look-up filter to identify a given mapping table storing a given input key. The mapping tablets comprise at least one dynamic in-memory ingress tablet and a plurality of persisted frozen tablets. For a given update operation, a first entry is added to one dynamic in-memory ingress tablet comprising the input key for the given update operation and a corresponding output key where data for the given update operation is stored; and a second entry is added to the look-up filter comprising the input key of the first entry and an identifier of the dynamic in-memory ingress tablet storing the first entry for the given update operation. The dynamic in-memory ingress tablet is persisted as a persisted frozen tablet. Space accounting accounts for usage of the storage devices by a given write operation of a given data offset as one of a new write operation and an overwrite operation. |
| US10210066B2 |
Instruction and logic to test transactional execution status
Novel instructions, logic, methods and apparatus are disclosed to test transactional execution status. Embodiments include decoding a first instruction to start a transactional region. Responsive to the first instruction, a checkpoint for a set of architecture state registers is generated and memory accesses from a processing element in the transactional region associated with the first instruction are tracked. A second instruction to detect transactional execution of the transactional region is then decoded. An operation is executed, responsive to decoding the second instruction, to determine if an execution context of the second instruction is within the transactional region. Then responsive to the second instruction, a first flag is updated. In some embodiments, a register may optionally be updated and/or a second flag may optionally be updated responsive to the second instruction. |
| US10210065B2 |
Instruction and logic to test transactional execution status
Novel instructions, logic, methods and apparatus are disclosed to test transactional execution status. Embodiments include decoding a first instruction to start a transactional region. Responsive to the first instruction, a checkpoint for a set of architecture state registers is generated and memory accesses from a processing element in the transactional region associated with the first instruction are tracked. A second instruction to detect transactional execution of the transactional region is then decoded. An operation is executed, responsive to decoding the second instruction, to determine if an execution context of the second instruction is within the transactional region. Then responsive to the second instruction, a first flag is updated. In some embodiments, a register may optionally be updated and/or a second flag may optionally be updated responsive to the second instruction. |
| US10210063B2 |
Disk array storage controller
This invention relates to a system, method and computer program product for a drive array controller (for example a RAID6 controller) comprising: a failed strip identifier for identifying a failed strip in a critical stride strip in drive array when the drive array has two or more failed drives, a critical stride is a stride with two (for example) failed strips, a failed strip is a strip in a failed drive, a failed drive is a drive that can no longer be reliably used; a safe strip identifier for identifying a safe strip in a safe stride, a safe stride is a stride with no failed strips (or at least two less than a critical stride), a safe strip is a strip in a safe stride; a drive array writer for writing a recalculated failed strip to the drive array location for the safe strip; and a lending table writer for writing the failed strip location and associated safe strip location to a lending table. |
| US10210062B2 |
Data storage system comprising an array of drives
A data storage system comprises a primary storage system comprising an array of drives and a storage controller comprising a stack of storage components. A storage component of the stack operates a data redundancy scheme for the primary storage system. The storage controller stores a set of data on the primary storage system, detects a failure on one or more drives and determines a set of addresses defining data that cannot be completely repaired. Starting with the storage component operating the data redundancy scheme, each storage component queries the storage component directly above with the set of addresses for the data that cannot be completely repaired, obtaining, from one or more storage components, the data that cannot be completely repaired. This obtained data is used to repair the data on the primary storage system with the data from the one or more storage components. |
| US10210061B2 |
Fault tolerant application storage volumes for ensuring application availability and preventing data loss using forking techniques
A fault tolerant system is described for deploying an application contained in an application storage volume, which may be a virtual disk, on a virtual machine (VM) in a remote desktop environment. The application can be executed on the VM after mounting the virtual disk. A backup of the virtual disk is produced by cloning the virtual disk to a different storage device than the location of the primary virtual disk. In some embodiments, if the primary virtual disk fails during execution of the application, the application is suspended, redirected to the backup virtual disk, and resumed from the backup virtual disk. In other embodiments, if the primary virtual disk fails during execution of the application, a child process is spun off from the parent process using forking techniques, the child process is directed to the backup virtual disk, and the application is resumed from the backup virtual disk. |
| US10210059B1 |
IO workload selection and prioritization in data mirroring environments
A method of IO workload selection and prioritization in data mirroring environments includes setting a first weight, a second weight, and a third weight to be used during an iteration of IO processing. The method further includes processing IOs of a first class of IO operations while there are IOs of the first class of IO operations to be processed and while a first weight for the first class of IO operations is positive, processing IOs of a second class of IO operations while there are IOs of the second class of IO operations to be processed and while a second weight for the second class of IO operations is positive, processing IOs of a third class of IO operations while there are IOs of the third class of IO operations to be processed and while a third weight for the third class of IO operations is positive. |
| US10210052B1 |
Logless backup of databases using internet SCSI protocol
Embodiments provide backup up databases using a checkpoint mechanism without requiring saving of transaction logs by: taking a backup snapshot of the database; exposing an iSCSI disk using the snapshot backup as a target by encapsulating the snapshot in a virtual disk; creating a read/write differencing disk for the exposed iSCSI disk; replaying transaction logs onto the iSCSI disk; and streaming the contents of the virtual disk to a storage medium to create a saveset. |
| US10210049B2 |
Data synchronization of block-level backup
As disclosed herein a computer program product for optimizing data synchronization when performing a block-level backup includes program instructions comprising instructions to receive a customized merging plan, create a padding map comprising missing data information, request missing data from a local backup server, wherein the instructions to request missing data comprise instructions to send the padding map to the local backup server, receive from the local backup server the missing data, and perform a snapshot consolidation according to the customized merging plan to provide a consolidated snapshot. The program instructions may include instructions to record missing data files and data blocks in the padding map. A computer system, corresponding to the computer program product is also disclosed herein. |
| US10210048B2 |
Selective snapshot and backup copy operations for individual virtual machines in a shared storage
System and techniques for performing selective snapshot and backup copy operations for individual virtual machines in a shared storage. The system can include a hypervisor configured to create and operate a plurality of virtual machines. The system can also include one or more shared physical computer storage devices communicatively coupled to the hypervisor to store the plurality of virtual machines. A plurality of storage volumes can be provided in the one or more shared physical computer storage devices, each storage volume uniquely corresponding to one of the virtual machines. The system can also include a virtual server agent configured to issue a command to the hypervisor to perform a snapshot or backup copy operation for a selected one of the plurality of virtual machines without performing the operation for any other unselected virtual machine in the one or more shared physical computer storage devices. |
| US10210047B2 |
Automated data recovery from remote data object replicas
Machines, systems and methods for recovering data objects in a distributed data storage system, the method comprising storing one or more replicas of a first data object on one or more clusters in one or more data centers connected over a data communications network; recording health information about said one or more replicas, wherein the health information comprises data about availability of a replica to participate in a restoration process; calculating a query-priority for the first data object; querying, based on the calculated query-priority, the health information for the one or more replicas to determine which of the one or more replicas is available for restoration of the object data; calculating a restoration-priority for the first data object based on the health information for the one or more replicas; and restoring the first data object from the one or more of the available replicas, based on the calculated restoration-priority. |
| US10210043B2 |
System and method for performing simultaneous read and write operations in a memory
A network device includes: a set of content memory banks including a first memory bank; a parity memory bank; a first memory interface; and a second memory interface. The first memory interface is configured to perform a write operation to write new content data to a location in a first content memory bank in a plurality of partial write operations that are spread over two or more clock cycles, including: generating new parity information for the new content data using old content data at the location in the first content memory bank, and storing the new parity information to the parity memory bank. The second memory interface is configured to perform a read operation at the location in the first content memory bank concurrently while the first memory interface is performing at least one of the plurality of partial write operations. |
| US10210042B2 |
Memory system
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a decoder configured to correct an error of the data stored in a memory based on result of the first read and the second read, and output a first signal of a first value indicating corrected data and a second signal of a second value indicating corrected data; a generator configured to count the first and second signals for first data items based on the result of the first and second read for generating count numbers of the first and second signals for each of the first data items; and a controller configured to compare a magnitude relation of the count numbers in order of read levels, determine the first data item when the magnitude relation changes. |
| US10210041B2 |
Systems and methods for low latency copy operations in non-volatile memory
Techniques and systems are provided for copying, with or without error-fixing or corrections, data associated with a first set of locations to a second set of locations in a flash memory. Example methods disclosed, when performed by a flash memory controller, can significantly improve latency of operations. Embodiments of the disclosure can be used, for example, in a garbage collection process of a NAND flash memory. |
| US10210032B2 |
Processing commands via dedicated register pairs for each thread of a plurality of threads
A hardware acceleration block is configured to process via a dedicated pair of registers, a plurality of commands of each of a plurality of threads received from a compute complex. The hardware acceleration block receives successive commands that are separated by at least an amount of time, from a thread of the plurality of threads. The amount of time is adequate to process a command from the thread. |
| US10210031B2 |
Method and system for generating queue based applications dependencies in virtual machines
A method and a system for generating queue based applications dependencies in virtual machines are provided. The method includes the following steps. At least one transmitting message transmitted via at least one enterprise service bus by a plurality of application programs is intercepted. The at least one transmitting message includes at least one request message. The at least one request message is obtained by filtering the at least one transmitting message. A client and a server of each of the at least one request message are obtained. A checksum of each of the at least one request message is calculated to obtain a message identification of each of the at least one request message. The client, the server and the message identification of each of the at least one request message are recorded in a dependencies table. |
| US10210030B2 |
Securely operating remote cloud-based applications
Systems and methods may provide network-based application functionality to a remote mobile computing device. A method includes establishing, in response to a request, a remote session connection with the remote mobile computing device via an application container client at the remote mobile computing device, and accessing a virtual application process, based on a particular configuration of the remote mobile computing device, for a mobile application. The method also includes transmitting to the remote mobile computing device, via the remote session connection, content for presenting an interface of the mobile application according to the virtual application process, the content being configured for rendering by the application container client at the remote mobile computing device to simulate an interface associated with the mobile application according to the particular configuration of the remote mobile computing device, wherein the mobile application is not stored on the remote mobile computing device. |
| US10210027B1 |
Cluster management
A computer implemented method, system, and computer program product comprising computing at a cluster manager and node manager a realized goal state by examining a goal state stack for a set of nodes of a cluster, determining differences between the realized goal state and the actual state of the cluster and nodes, and based on the differences, determining a set of actions to align the actual state with the realized goal state. |
| US10210022B2 |
Feedback mechanism for controlling dispatching work tasks in a multi-tier storage environment
A method for controlling dispatching work tasks in a multi-tier storage environment. A computer system receives storage demands of work tasks. The computer system determines placement and migration policies for data in storage tiers in a storage system. The computer system prepares the storage tiers for meeting the storage demands of work tasks, based on the placement and migration policies. The computer system determines a state of preparation of the storage tiers for meeting the storage demands of work tasks. The computer system determines a list including work tasks that can proceed and work tasks that cannot proceed, based on the state of the preparation. The computer system modifies a schedule of the work tasks, based on the list. |
| US10210021B2 |
Managing a set of assets for a user in a shared pool of configurable computing resources
Disclosed aspects include managing a set of assets for a user in a shared pool of configurable computing resources. The shared pool of configurable computing resources has a set of virtual machines. A set of usage data for the user is established. The set of usage data corresponds to usage of an asset by the user. Based on the set of usage data for the user, an asset action for the asset for the user on a virtual machine is determined. In response to determining the asset action for the asset, the asset action for the asset for the user on the virtual machine is selected. |
| US10210017B1 |
System and method for application isolation
A system, method, and computer readable medium for providing application isolation to one or more applications and their associated resources. The system may include one or more isolated environments including application files and executables, and one or more interception layers intercepting access to system resources and interfaces. Further, the system may include an interception database maintaining mapping between the system resources inside the one or more isolated environments and outside, and a host operating system. The one or more applications may be isolated from other applications and the host operating system while running within the one or more isolated environments. |
| US10210016B2 |
Creating multiple local virtual machines running multiple operating systems
A computer system with a hypervisor detects the local physical connection of a portable storage device with an operating system image thereon. The computer system installs an instance of the operating system on the hypervisor, and the hypervisor assigns a set of resources to the instance to generate a virtual machine. As further portable storage devices with operating systems thereon are locally, physically connected to the computer system, additional virtual machines are generated, each with a different operating system instance, which may be the same or different from the other operating system instances. The resources of the computer system are assigned and reassigned among the virtual machines as the portable storage devices are connected and disconnected. |
| US10210008B2 |
Control server, service providing system, and method of providing a virtual infrastructure
A service providing system includes a control server and a physical resource(s) controlled by the control server. The control server has a virtual device providing unit(s) that provides at least one virtual object for controlling a physical resource(s), and a virtual infrastructure providing unit(s) that can provide, as a virtual object(s), a virtual infrastructure(s) configured using at least one virtual object provided by the virtual device providing unit(s), wherein the virtual infrastructure providing unit(s) can configure a virtual infrastructure(s) using the virtual object(s) provided by the virtual infrastructure providing unit(s), and can provide the virtual infrastructure(s) as a virtual object(s). |
| US10210003B2 |
Methods and apparatus for module arbitration
Methods and apparatus to process a user input on independent applications that provide classifier outputs to an arbitration module, which selects one of the application to respond to the user input. The classifier outputs include a probability that the user input is in domain for the application functionality. |
| US10210002B2 |
Method and apparatus of processing expression information in instant communication
A method provides an expression picture in an instant communication conversation window; acquires information of a user operation activity information from a sending user with respect to the expression picture; searching a first expression database based on the expression picture and the acquired information of the user operation activity; generates a first response message corresponding to the expression picture under the user operation activity; and sends found information related to the expression picture and the acquired information of the user operation activity to a receiving client corresponding to a receiving user to facilitate the receiving client to generate a second response message corresponding to the expression picture under the user operation activity. |
| US10210001B2 |
Automatic execution of objects in a user interface
Embodiments are directed to traversing and mapping a user interface. In one scenario, a computer system performs a method for traversing and mapping a user interface that includes the following: rendering a user interface (UI) based on data received from an information source, constructing an element collection with UI elements, the element collection describing relationships that exist between the UI elements, traversing the element collection to identify various node element types, identifying, within a pre-defined action set, an action associated with at least one of the identified node element types, executing the identified action against the identified node element types, and logging at least one network request resulting from the executed action. |
| US10210000B2 |
Methods for user interface generation and application modification
A method of generating a user interface for presentation to a user. The method comprises executing a first application computer program to provide a user interface, executing agent computer program code to interrogate and modify said user interface during execution of said first application computer program, and presenting said modified user interface. The first application computer program may be run on a server, while the modified user interface may be presented to a user at a client connected to said server. |
| US10209999B2 |
Devices, updaters, methods for controlling a device, and methods for controlling an updater
According to various embodiments, a device may be provided. The device may include a bootloader; a memory configured to store firmware data for controlling the device; a processor configured to operate in a device operation mode or in a bootloader mode: and an interface. The device operation mode may be a mode in which the processor controls the bootloader to load the firmware data stored, in the memory. The bootloader mode may be a mode in which the processor controls the bootloader to send an identifier of the device using the interface, to receive firmware data using the interface and to store the firmware data in the memory. |
| US10209998B2 |
Multi-threading processor and a scheduling method thereof
A processor includes an execution unit, a retirement module, a first retirement counter, a second retirement counter, and an adjustment module. The execution unit executes instructions of a first thread and a second thread by simultaneous multithreading. The retirement module retires the executed instructions of the first thread in order of the first-thread instruction sequence, and retires the executed instructions of the second thread in order of the second-thread instruction sequence. The first retirement counter determines a first multi-thread retirement rate of the first thread. The second retirement counter determines a second multi-thread retirement rate of the second thread. The adjustment module adjusts the proportions of hardware resources respectively occupied by the first thread and the second thread according to the first multi-thread retirement rate and the second multi-thread retirement rate, so that the processor executes at its most efficient level of performance. |
| US10209995B2 |
Processor core including pre-issue load-hit-store (LHS) hazard prediction to reduce rejection of load instructions
A processor core supporting out-of-order execution (OOE) includes load-hit-store (LHS) hazard prediction at the instruction execution phase, reducing load instruction rejections and queue flushes at the dispatch phase. The instruction dispatch unit (IDU) detects likely LHS hazards by generating entries for pending stores in a LHS detection table. The entries in the table contain an address field (generally the immediate field) of the store instruction and the register number of the store. The IDU compares the address field and register number for each load with entries in the table to determine if a likely LHS hazard exists and if an LHS hazard is detected, the load is dispatched to the issue queue of the load-store unit (LSU) with a tag corresponding to the matching store instruction, causing the LSU to dispatch the load only after the corresponding store has been dispatched for execution. |
| US10209992B2 |
System and method for branch prediction using two branch history tables and presetting a global branch history register
A method and system for branch prediction are provided herein. The method includes executing a program, wherein the program comprising multiple procedures, and setting bits in a taken branch history register to indicate whether a branch is taken or not taken during execution of instructions in the program. The method further includes the steps of calling a procedure in the program and overwriting, responsive to calling the procedure, the contents of the taken branch history register to a start address for the procedure. |
| US10209990B2 |
Conditional atomic operations in single instruction multiple data processors
A conditional fetch-and-phi operation tests a memory location to determine if the memory locations stores a specified value and, if so, modifies the value at the memory location. The conditional fetch-and-phi operation can be implemented so that it can be concurrently executed by a plurality of concurrently executing threads, such as the threads of wavefront at a GPU. To execute the conditional fetch-and-phi operation, one of the concurrently executing threads is selected to execute a compare-and-swap (CAS) operation at the memory location, while the other threads await the results. The CAS operation tests the value at the memory location and, if the CAS operation is successful, the value is passed to each of the concurrently executing threads. |
| US10209987B2 |
Direct digital synthesis of signals using maximum likelihood bit-stream encoding
Maximum likelihood bit-stream generation and detection techniques are provided using the M-algorithm and Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filtering. The M-Algorithm is applied to a target input signal X to perform Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation on the target input signal X to produce a digital bit stream B, such that after filtering by an IIR filter, the produced digital stream Y produces an error signal satisfying one or more predefined requirements. The predefined requirements comprise, for example, a substantially minimum error. In an exemplary bit detection implementation, the target input signal X comprises an observed analog signal and the produced digital stream Y comprises a digitized output of a receive channel corresponding to a transmitted bit stream. In an exemplary bit stream generation implementation, the target input signal X comprises a desired transmit signal and the produced digital stream Y comprises an estimate of the desired transmit signal. |
| US10209985B2 |
Descriptor-transformer framework in an integration platform
Various embodiments of systems, computer program products, and methods to provide descriptor-transformer framework in an integration platform are described herein. In an aspect, an instruction to integrate a plurality of applications is received through a web interface application corresponding to the integration platform. A descriptor file associated with connectivity adapters corresponding to the plurality of applications is retrieved. Further, one or more preprocessor steps and/or one or more postprocessor steps are determined by analyzing the descriptor file. The plurality of applications is integrated by executing an integration flow based on the determined one or more preprocessor steps and/or one or more postprocessor steps. |
| US10209976B2 |
Automated application installation
An example computer implemented method to automatically download and install a second application can include a first application detecting that a condition has occurred. This first application can be preinstalled by the original equipment manufacturer. The first application can then present an interface for signing in to or signing up for a service. The first application can then download and install the second application. This downloading and installation can occur in the background without requiring user interaction. The second application can be a client application for the service and the first application can pass a token with login credentials to the second application. This can allow the second application to be authenticated with the service without requiring a user to reenter the user's credentials. |
| US10209974B1 |
Automated model management methods
The method for model management includes, within a testing platform: building candidate model(s), validating the candidate model(s), and selectively deploying the candidate model(s) into a production environment. The method can optionally include, within a production environment: detecting a class instance based on the raw data using deployed model(s) within the production environment, and transmitting a notification to an endpoint associated with the detected class. |
| US10209973B2 |
Private application distribution mechanisms and architectures
Private AppExchanges within an on-demand services environment in which multiple tenants have corresponding tenant identifiers (IDs) and the on-demand services environment is provided by an entity separate from the client entities. Access to a listing of apps is provided to a remote device based on a tenant ID associated with the user. The listing of apps for each tenant ID is controlled by an administrative entity associated with each respective tenant ID and. A download request is received from the remote device for a selected app from the listing. The remote device is allowed access only to the listing of apps having a tenant ID corresponding to the tenant ID for the remote device. Download access is granted to the remote device for a selected app in response to the download request. The code for the selected app is transmitted from a storage device to the remote device. |
| US10209972B2 |
Executing optimized local entry points
Embodiments relate to using a local entry point with an indirect call function. More specifically, an indirect call function configuration comprises a first application module having a target function of the indirect function call, a second application module with a symbolic reference to the target function of the indirect function call, and a third application module to originate an indirect function call. A compiler determines and indicates, in the program code, that the function pointer value resulting from a non-call reference of a function symbol is solely used to perform indirect calls in the same module, e.g. local-use-only. A linker or loader can read the indication the compiler made in the program code. The linker or loader use the local entry point associated with the target function if the target function is defined in the same module as the reference and is local-use-only. |
| US10209970B2 |
System and method for supporting compatibility checking for lambda expression
A system and method can support compatibility checking in a programming language environment. The programming language environment can check whether a target type associated with an expression in the programming language environment is functional, wherein the target type is functional when it has exactly one method meeting one or more criteria that define that method as relevant in a counting system. Then, the programming language environment can derive a function descriptor from the target type, which is context-dependent. Furthermore, the programming language environment can type-check the expression with the function descriptor associated with the target type. |
| US10209969B1 |
Protocol compiler to generate flight code and routing tables
A protocol compiler to generate flight code and routing tables is disclosed. In various embodiments, one or more definition files are received. The one or more definition files are parsed to extract flight control system definition data. A communication topology comprising a set of entities of the flight control system and communication links between said entities is determined based on the flight control system definition data. A set of one or more routing tables is generated programmatically based at least in part on the communication topology and message type definition data. Flight code to implement a flight control system defined at least in part by said flight control system definition data is generating programmatically, based at least in part on the flight control system definition data, including code to route messages according to said one or more routing tables. |
| US10209965B1 |
In-line function synchronization
A device may provide, via a code editor window of a user interface, program code that includes a reference. The reference may call a portion of program code. The portion of program code may be associated with a source of the portion of program code. The device may determine the portion of program code based on the reference. The device may provide the portion of program code, in-line with the program code, via the code editor window of the user interface. The device may receive a modification to the portion of program code via the code editor window of the user interface. The device may synchronize the modification to the portion of program code with the source of the portion of program code. The device may create a modified copy of the source of the portion of program code based on the synchronizing. |
| US10209962B2 |
Reconstructing a high level compilable program from an instruction trace
Mechanisms are provided for generating a new compilable program from an instruction trace. The mechanisms receive a trace file for an original program whose execution on computing hardware has been traced and perform analysis of the trace file to identify a hot function, symbol information corresponding to the hot function, and initialization parameters for the hot function. The mechanisms generate a trace control flow graph based on the identified hot function and the symbol information corresponding to the hot function. The mechanisms identify, based on the trace control flow graph, pathways in the original program to the hot function, represented in the trace file. The mechanisms generate a reconstructed program based on the trace control flow graph, the pathways to the hot function, and the initialization parameters, and output the reconstructed program. |
| US10209961B2 |
Verification of the sensitivity of an electronic circuit executing a modular exponentiation calculation
A method of verifying the sensitivity of an electronic circuit executing a modular exponentiation calculation in a first register and a second register, successively including, for each bit of the exponent: a first step of multiplying the content of one of the registers, selected from among the first register and the second register according to the state of the bit of the exponent, by the content of the other one of the first and second registers, placing the result in said one of the registers; a second step of squaring the content of said other one of the registers by placing the result in this other register, wherein the content of that of the first and second registers which contains the multiplier of the operation of the first step is disturbed, for each bit of the exponent, during the execution of the first step. |
| US10209958B2 |
Reproducible stochastic rounding for out of order processors
A method for generating a random number for use in a stochastic rounding operation is provided. The method includes executing an instruction that causes at least two operands to produce an intermediate result and incrementing a state of a random number generator. The method d further includes causing the random number generator to generate a random number in accordance with the state and producing a final result by utilizing the random number to determine a rounding of the intermediate result. |
| US10209949B2 |
Automated vehicle operator stress reduction
In one example, a method includes determining, by one or more processors of a computing system included in a vehicle, whether one or more events have occurred that are likely to increase a stress level of an operator of the vehicle, and determining, by the one or more processors, whether the operator is the only person in the vehicle. In this example, the method includes, responsive to determining that one or more events have occurred that are likely to increase the stress level of the operator of the vehicle and that the operator is the only person in the vehicle, outputting, by the one or more processors and for playback by one or more output devices included in the vehicle, media data likely to reduce the stress level of the operator. |
| US10209948B2 |
Device grouping
An input at a physical interface of a first playback device is detected. The input may indicate a playback command. Via the first playback device, the second playback device is determined to be currently playing media content. Based on determining that the second playback device is currently playing media content and based on receiving the input at the physical interface, the first playback device is caused to play the media content synchronously with the second playback device. |
| US10209944B2 |
Interface sharing method and terminal device
A first terminal device shares a first interface with a second terminal device. If the first terminal device obtains a notification message to trigger generation of a second interface, the first terminal device first determines whether the second interface belongs to a preset sharing-forbidden interface. If the second interface belongs to the preset sharing-forbidden interface, the first terminal device shares only the first interface with the second terminal device, or suspends interface sharing with the second terminal device. |
| US10209943B2 |
Display control apparatus, control method thereof and storage medium
A display control apparatus causes a plurality of images to be arranged and projected by a plurality of projection units. An obtaining unit obtains an overlap value for indicating a width at which a portion of a first image and a portion of a second image overlap. A control unit causes the plurality of projection units to project the plurality of images which includes at least the first image and the second image by overlapping the portion of the first image and the portion of the second image by a width based on the overlap value. Also, the control unit causes the portion of the first image and the portion of the second image to overlap by the width based on the overlap value by changing a size of a projected image. |
| US10209940B2 |
Smartpad window management
A multi-display device is adapted to be dockable or otherwise associatable with an additional device. In accordance with one exemplary embodiment, the multi-display device is dockable with a smartpad. The exemplary smartpad can include a screen, a touch sensitive display, a configurable area, a gesture capture region(s) and a camera. The smartpad can also include a port adapted to receive the device. The exemplary smartpad is able to cooperate with the device such that information displayable on the device is also displayable on the smartpad. Furthermore, any one or more of the functions on the device are extendable to the smartpad, with the smartpad capable of acting as an input/output interface or extension of the smartpad. Therefore, for example, information from one or more of the displays on the multi-screen device is displayable on the smartpad. |
| US10209939B2 |
Information processing apparatus, control method of information processing apparatus, and storage medium
An information processing apparatus including a display unit that is capable of displaying an operation screen provided by a server notifies the server of a content of an instruction from a user via an operation screen provided by the server and displayed on the display unit, and if the server requests execution of a process based on the notified content of the instruction, executes the requested process. The information processing apparatus determines an operation screen displayed on the display unit after notifying the server, and if the operation screen provided by the server is displayed on the display unit, performs control to execute the process requested by the server, and if another operation screen is displayed on the display unit instead of the operation screen provided by the server, performs control to not execute the process requested by the server. |
| US10209937B2 |
Control device and control method of control device
A host control unit (processor) of a host which can be connected to a printer transmits a setting value requesting command which requests a response of a new function setting value, and a status requesting command which requests a response of a status value, thereafter, to the printer, and determines that the printer corresponds to the setting value requesting command, in a case in which the new function setting value using the setting value requesting command is received earlier than the status value using the status requesting command. |
| US10209930B2 |
Printer with time information comparing function
A printer includes: an image former configured to form an image on a sheet based on a print job; a processor; and a memory including instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations include: comparing first time information indicating time information set for a region where the printer is allowed to be present and second time information indicating time information in a region where the printer is currently present and determining whether a time difference between the first time information and the second time information is greater than a predetermined time, and upon determining that the time difference is greater than the predetermined time, calling for execution of maintenance of the printer and selectably displaying options of the execution of the maintenance of the printer and execution of limited print processing by the image former. |
| US10209928B2 |
System and method for automatically printing a translation of a document
A method enables automatically printing a translation of a document without user interaction with a printer local user interface. A trigger event caused by connecting an external storage device with a printer is detected. The storage device includes a folder storing a source document or an access link it. The folder includes information which enables the printer to identify a printing protocol from a plurality of printing protocols. The protocols include at least one translation printing protocol which specifies that the source document is to be translated prior to printing. The source document is retrieved from the folder or from a remote location. The printing protocol is identified, based on the information. When the printing protocol is one of the at least one translation printing protocols, a translation of the source document is obtained in a target language. The translation of the source document is printed on the printer. |
| US10209926B2 |
Storage system and control method therefor
When the storage system according to the present invention receives a request for writing new data to a first logical volume after having received a first pair creating request, the storage system stores the new data in a cache memory. Then when the storage system subsequently receives a second pair creating request, even if the cache memory still has stored therein the data identical to the data that was stored on the first logical volume at the point in time when the storage system received the first pair formation request, and even if this identical data has not yet been copied to the second logical volume, the storage system omits to copy this identical data to the second logical volume. |
| US10209923B2 |
Coalescing configuration engine, coalescing configuration tool and file system for storage system
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, a coalescing configuration engine, a coalescing configuration tool and a file system for a storage system, and comprises at least one initiator, each initiator accessing a corresponding storage space in the storage system via at least one virtual logic unit number LUN by executing in parallel a plurality of configuration operations, wherein each configuration operation is used to configure a mapping relationship between the at least one virtual LUN and the at least one initiator. |
| US10209922B2 |
Communication via a memory interface
A memory space of a module connected to a memory controller via a memory interface may be used as a command buffer. Commands received by the module via the command buffer are executed by the module. The memory controller may write to the command buffer out-of-order. The memory controller may delay or eliminate writes to the command buffer. Tags associated with commands are used to specify the order commands are executed. A status buffer in the memory space of the module is used to communicate whether commands have been received or executed. Information received via the status buffer can be used as a basis for a determination to re-send commands to the command buffer. |
| US10209920B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for generating machine code for driving an execution unit
A method for generating machine code for driving an execution unit is introduced to incorporate with at least the following steps: Data access instructions of a kernel, which are associated with the same memory surface, are collected. An address pattern associated with the data access instructions is analyzed to generate a global-id address. Machine code containing the global-id address is generated. |
| US10209919B2 |
Storage control apparatus and system for copying data to remote locations
A storage system is able to perform an operation of remote copy from a first storage apparatus to a second storage apparatus. A first control unit transfers summary information of copy target data stored in the first storage apparatus from the first storage apparatus to the second storage apparatus. A second control unit checks the summary information against information stored in the second storage apparatus. The second control unit transfers the checked result from the second storage apparatus to the first storage apparatus. If the checked result indicates matching discrepancy, the first control unit transfers the copy target data to the second storage apparatus and completes the remote copy operation. |
| US10209918B2 |
Migrating MMIO from a source I/O adapter of a source computing system to a destination I/O adapter of a destination computing system
Migrating memory MMIO from a source I/O adapter of a source computing system to a destination I/O adapter of a destination computing system, includes: collecting, by a source hypervisor of the source computing system, MMIO mapping information, where the source hypervisor supports a logical partition on the source computing system and the logical partition is configured for MMIO operations with the source I/O adapter through an MMU; placing, by a destination hypervisor of the destination computing system, the destination I/O adapter in an error state; migrating the logical partition from the source computing system to the destination computing system; configuring, by the destination hypervisor of the destination computing system, the destination computing system for MMIO with the LPAR utilizing the MMIO mapping information collected by the source hypervisor; and restarting the logical partition on the destination computing system, including recovering, by the logical partition, from the error state. |
| US10209917B2 |
Physical memory migration for secure encrypted virtual machines
Systems and methods for migrating encrypted storage blocks in a security enhanced manner. An example method may comprise: selecting, by the hypervisor, a first storage block and a second storage block, the first storage block being associated with a virtual machine; associating the second storage block with the virtual machine; providing, by the hypervisor, an instruction for the virtual machine to copy content of the first storage block to the second storage block; and enabling the virtual machine to access the content in the second storage block. |
| US10209913B2 |
System, method and computer program product for accelerating iterative graph algorithms by memory layout optimization
An iterative graph algorithm accelerating method, system, and computer program product, include recording an order of access nodes in a memory layout, reordering the access nodes in the memory layout in accordance with the recorded order, and updating edge information of the reordered access nodes. |
| US10209909B1 |
Storage element cloning in presence of data storage pre-mapper
A mapping apparatus comprises a mapper that translates from an input key to an output key in one or more storage devices. A pre-mapper for processing update operations comprises a plurality of mapping tablets and an in-memory look-up filter to identify a given mapping table storing a given input key. The mapping tablets comprise at least one dynamic in-memory ingress tablet and a plurality of persisted frozen tablets. For a given update operation, a first entry is added to one dynamic in-memory ingress tablet comprising the input key for the given update operation and a corresponding output key where data for the given update operation is stored; and a second entry is added to the look-up filter comprising the input key of the first entry and an identifier of the dynamic in-memory ingress tablet storing the first entry for the given update operation. The dynamic in-memory ingress tablet is persisted as a persisted frozen tablet. A given storage element is cloned by making a copy of the given storage element and assigning a new internal identifier to the given storage element and the copy. |
| US10209908B2 |
Optimization of in-memory data grid placement
A method, system, and program product for optimizing distribution and availability of data partitions is disclosed. Placement logic is run for data partition distribution which optimizes a configuration of a memory data grid. A determination of a change in performance of the memory data grid after adding new members to the memory data grid is provided. Replication of data partitions in the memory data grid is minimized. Optimum data partition distribution in the memory data grid is determined. |
| US10209904B2 |
Multiprocessor system with independent direct access to bulk solid state memory resources
A system has a collection of central processing units. Each central processing unit is connected to at least one other central processing unit and has a path into flash memory resources. A central processing unit supports a mapping from a data address space, to a flash memory virtual address space, to a flash memory virtual page number to a flash memory physical address space. |
| US10209902B1 |
Method and apparatus for selecting a memory block for writing data, based on a predicted frequency of updating the data
Some of the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for programming a flash memory having a plurality of memory blocks, wherein each memory block of the plurality of memory blocks is either a single-level cell (SLC) memory block or a multi-level cell (MLC) memory block, the method comprising assigning a weighting factor to each memory block of the plurality of memory blocks based on whether the memory block is an SLC memory block or an MLC memory block, tracking a number of write-erase cycles for each memory block, and selecting one or more memory blocks for writing data based at least in part on the weighting factor and the tracked number of write-erase cycles of each memory block of the plurality of memory blocks. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. |
| US10209901B2 |
Systems and methods for distributive data storage
In some embodiments, a method can comprise dividing an image into two or more portions and calculating a portion hash value for each portion of the two or more portions, each portion hash value for each portion of the two or more portions is different than an other portion hash value for other portions of the two or more portions. The method can further comprise creating one or more image portion replicas of each portion of the two or more portions by replicating each portion of the two or more portions by a replication factor, the one or more image portion replicas comprising the same portion hash value as each portion of the two or more portions. The method can further comprise sending the one or more image portion replicas to a distributive data storage cluster, the distributive data storage cluster comprising two or more storage nodes, and storing each of the one or more image portion replicas in the two or more storage nodes. Other embodiments of related methods and systems are also provided. |
| US10209897B2 |
Storage device and control method of the same
According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The controller includes a host interface control circuit and a memory interface control circuit. When, within a period during which the controller is in a mode to manage mapping between logical addresses and physical addresses of the nonvolatile memory in units of management size corresponding to plural clusters, a skip write command with a skip mask indicating logical blocks to be transferred is received from a host, the host interface control circuit transfers write data to a buffer in units of clusters, and transmit plural write instructions to the memory interface control circuit when the cluster being currently transferred is the last valid cluster in the plural clusters. |
| US10209895B2 |
Memory system
According to one embodiment, a memory system is provided with a memory cell array, a first command issuing circuit and a controller. The memory cell array includes a plurality of data areas and a plurality of first parity areas. The data areas are arranged in a plurality of banks or in a plurality of chips, and individually store a plurality of data portions constituting access-unit data. The first parity areas are adjacent to the data areas and individually store a plurality of first parity portions constituting the first parity corresponding to the data. The first command issuing circuit issues a first command for the data areas and the first parity areas. The controller accesses the data areas and the first parity areas in response to the first command. |
| US10209892B2 |
Storage of format-aware filter format tracking states
Examples include the storage of format-aware filter format tracking states. Some examples include storage of a format tracking state for a format aware filter in a backup system in association with a backup object, access of the format tracking state from the backup system in response to detection of a potential continuation of a backup image, and applying the format-aware filter using the accessed format tracking state. |
| US10209886B2 |
Method for adaptively adjusting directionally decreasing columnar layout of virtual keys for single handed use based on a difference between left and right error input counters
Provided is a device for adaptively adjusting a layout of a touch input panel, including: an input information counting component, configured to count error input information of virtual keys in real time; a holding mode judgement component, configured to judge, when the number of error inputs occurring in a region on one side of the input panel is apparently more than the number of error inputs occurring in a region on the other side of the input panel, that the user is holding and operating a mobile terminal with a single hand and the user is currently holding, by the single hand, the side where fewer error inputs occur; and a panel layout adjustment component, configured to adjust an overall layout of the input panel and a current UI, and arrange the virtual keys to places where the single hand holding the mobile terminal is capable of completely controlling them. |
| US10209884B2 |
Devices, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Manipulating User Interface Objects with Visual and/or Haptic Feedback
A device displays a user interface that includes a plurality of application icons. While displaying the user interface, the device detects an input that a contact at a location that corresponds to an application icon associated with an application. In response to detecting the input: when an intensity of the contact does not meet an intensity threshold, the device launches the application and replaces display of the user interface that includes the plurality of application icons with a user interface of the application; and when the characteristic intensity of the contact meets the intensity threshold, the device concurrently displays a content object and an affordance that is associated with the content object. The content object includes content automatically selected from the application based on a current context of the electronic device. The affordance is configured to add the content object to a user interface that includes information for multiple applications. |
| US10209883B2 |
Method and apparatus for launching activities
A handheld electronic device having a microprocessor housed within a body including a display area and a contact-sensitive area is disclosed. The contact-sensitive area detects contact engagement therewith and produces instruction data based thereupon. A microprocessor-run software program receives instruction data from the contact-sensitive area. The contact-sensitive area has a home zone area and a plurality of activity launch zone areas. The software program is programmed to process the instruction data and determine sweeping contact motion detected on the contact-sensitive area originating at the home zone area and terminating at one of the plurality of activity launch zone areas. The program responsively launches an operator-instructed activity corresponding to the activity launch zone area at which the sweeping contact motion terminated. |
| US10209878B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus includes: a display panel; a deformation sensor configured to sense a bending of the display panel; and a controller configured to control the display panel, wherein the controller is configured to: control displaying a plurality of objects on the display panel; detect the bending of the display panel through the deformation sensor; divide the display panel into a first area and a second area with respect to a bending line defined by the bending; divide the objects into a first object corresponding to the first area and a second object corresponding to the second area according to the bending; and move the first and second objects in first and second directions, respectively, according to the bending. |
| US10209877B2 |
Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for moving on-screen objects without using a cursor
A technique for providing more intuitive user interfaces that use direct finger manipulation to interact with an object on a touch screen display. In particular, the technique displays, on the touch screen display, an object and detects a finger contact to interact with the object. |
| US10209875B2 |
Scrolling apparatus, scrolling method, and computer-readable medium
An electronic apparatus includes a display that displays a content, and a detector that detects contactless proximity of an object to the display and contact of the object to the display. While the content scrolls on the display at gradually decreasing speeds, when the contactless proximity of the object to the display is detected and the contact of the object to the display is not detected, a scrolling speed of the content changes from the gradually decreasing speeds to a constant speed, which is faster than being stopped. After the scrolling speed of the content has changed to the constant speed, while the contactless proximity of the object to the display is detected and the contact of the object to the display is not detected, the content scrolls on the display at the constant speed. |
| US10209874B2 |
Method and device for outputting content and recording medium for executing the method
A method of outputting content by a device includes obtaining attribute information about review content that is retrieved by the device; estimating an amount of user's memory about the review content at a preset time based on the obtained attribute information and reference information obtained after the review content is selected; comparing the estimated amount of the user's memory and a threshold value; and changing appearance of the review content in response to the amount of the user's memory being determined as equal to or less than the threshold value. |
| US10209870B2 |
Computer readable medium and apparatus
Various areas of a displayed document (e.g., text, image, etc.) may be selected and clipped as a separate document. In some arrangements, a user may wish to change the area of the clipped area without having to retrieve the displayed document again. Accordingly, the area of the clipped region may be modified by retrieving and storing the displayed document when the region is initially clipped. When the selected region is to be modified at a later time, the stored document may be used instead of having to retrieve the document from a source location. |
| US10209867B1 |
Electronic documentation integration and viewing system
A Document Integration and Viewing System (DIVS) can perform a method that comprises accessing a plurality of electronic documents, assigning each of the electronic documents to an appropriate category of a plurality of user-specified document categories, establishing a sequence for the electronic documents in each of the user-specified document categories, and generating a graphical user interface that includes a plurality of panes. Each of the user-specified document categories is assigned to a different pane of the plurality of panes so that each of the electronic documents is assigned to a corresponding one of the panes. Within each pane, all of the electronic documents assigned to the pane are viewable sequentially in response to user inputs according to the sequence determined for the electronic documents of the corresponding category, with seamless visual transitions between contents of the electronic documents assigned to each pane. |
| US10209865B2 |
Display of a plurality of files from multiple devices
In a synchronization or back-up system that synchronizes and/or back-ups files from multiple computing devices, the present invention provides a method for (1) displaying files from multiple computing devices in a multi-view user interface and (2) enabling content and file operations to be performed on such files through the user interface. The multi-view interface includes a file-system view and one or more media-specific views. In the file-system view files are organized in the same way in which they are organized on the devices on which they are stored. The file-system view in the interface looks essentially the same as the file-system view on client devices. In the file-system view, users can perform file operations on files. In the media-specific view files are organized by media category. In one embodiment of the media-specific view, files are organized by metadata that relates to the files content. In the media-specific view, users can perform content operations on the files. |
| US10209851B2 |
Management of inactive windows
In a computer system, one or more windows displayed on a virtual desktop of a computing device are determined to be inactive. The one or more windows may correspond to one or more processes running on the computing device. In response to determining that the one or more windows are inactive, state information for the one or more corresponding processes is saved and the one or more windows and corresponding processes are terminated. The state information comprises information for restarting the one or more processes and regenerating the one or more windows in a state that existed at a point in time corresponding to the termination of the windows and processes. A user interface is provided for restoring the terminated windows based on the stored state information. |
| US10209849B2 |
Adaptive user interface pane objects
Aspects of a system for automatically managing a pane in a user interface on a small form factor computing device include an adaptive pane module for determining when an event that affects the canvas size occurs, such as changing the display configuration or reorienting the display, which in turn affects pane management, or the opening or closing of a pane. The adaptive pane module manages the pane. After managing the pane, the system resizes the canvas and reflows the content as appropriate for a small form factor computing device. |
| US10209848B2 |
Space and time cognitive mobility system with distributed and cooperative intelligence capabilities
A system enables the user to customize the temporal and/or spatial behavior aspects of desired things with respect to one or more target platforms. The desired things include objects, actions, and media files and can be associated with a time (T-thing), a location (L-thing), a time and location (LT-thing), a platform (P-thing), and combinations thereof. The user can pick and assemble multiple things into meta-things and create meta things of various types. The target platforms include any devices or systems that can be programmed to perform behaviors. The user programs a set of rules, which are then used to specify the behavioral aspects exercised by the system on the target platforms. The user interacts with the system through a portal and/or a mobile application. The portal is an intuitive GUI that enables the user to program the system in a simple pick-drag-and-drop fashion. |
| US10209841B2 |
Position inputting device and display device with position inputting function
A touchscreen 12 includes first touch electrode lines 31, first touch electrode groups 33, first traces 29, second touch electrode lines 32, second touch electrode groups 34, and second traces 30. The first touch electrode lines 31 include first touch electrodes 27 arranged along a first direction. Each first touch electrode group 33 includes multiple first touch electrodes 27. Each first trace 29 is connected to multiple first touch electrodes 27 in each first touch electrode group 33. The second touch electrode lines 32 include second touch electrodes 28 arranged along a second direction. Each second touch electrode group 34 includes multiple second touch electrodes 28. Each second trace 30 is connected to multiple second touch electrodes 28 in each second electrode touch group 34. |
| US10209840B2 |
Touch window and touch device
A touch window is provided. The touch window may include a substrate including an effective region and an ineffective region, and a plurality of pressure detection members provided on the effective region. The plurality of pressure detection members may be spaced apart from each other, and the plurality of pressure detection members may include a strain gauge or a piezoelectric material. |
| US10209839B2 |
Method for producing laminated material, laminated material, method for producing transparent laminate, transparent laminate, capacitance-type input device, and image display device
Provided is a method for producing a laminated material, the method including forming a first transparent resin layer on a base material; and forming a second transparent resin layer directly on the first transparent resin layer, in which the forming a first transparent resin layer is applying an organic solvent-based resin composition on the base material, and the forming a second transparent resin layer is applying a water-based resin composition including an ammonium salt of a monomer having an acid group or an ammonium salt of a resin having an acid group. The method for producing a laminated material can provide a laminated material which exhibits satisfactory layer demarcation, and by which a problem caused by moisture absorption of the transparent resin layer formed using a water-based resin composition in a case in which the laminated material is subjected to a high temperature and high humidity environment for a period of time can be suppressed. Also provided are a laminated material, a transparent laminate, a method for producing a transparent laminate, a capacitance-type input device, and an image display device. |
| US10209836B2 |
Array substrate, touch screen and display apparatus containing the same, and method for driving the same
The present disclosure provides a method for driving an array substrate for fingerprint recognition. The method includes sequentially sending a switch-on signal by a processing unit to each gate line row by row along the column direction, the switch-on signal being divided into a first phase and a second phase. In the first phase of each switch-on signal, sending a touch-driving signal to pixel electrodes corresponding to the gate line through a first data line in each data line group, receiving a touch-sensing signal through a second data line in each data line group, and constructing a fingerprint pattern based on touch-sensing signals. In the second phase of each switch-on signal, simultaneously sending display signals to the first data line and the second data line in the data line groups to charge subpixel units corresponding to the gate line for displaying an image. |
| US10209835B2 |
Touch detecting device and semiconductor device
A touch panel controller is provided with a calibration circuit that performs offset adjustment with respect to input signals of a plurality of detection circuits corresponding to a plurality of X electrodes of the touch panel, and a storage device that stores first parameter data that specifies an offset adjustment operation of the calibration circuit, and second parameter data for correction for the first parameter data. |
| US10209832B2 |
Detecting user interactions with a computing system of a vehicle
A computing system of a vehicle for controlling a vehicle or systems within a vehicle. The computing system comprises a presence-sensitive panel within the vehicle, an infrared camera configured to capture images in a three-dimensional space within the vehicle, at least one processor; and at least one storage device that stores instructions. When the instructions are executed, they case the at least one processor to: receive, from the presence-sensitive panel, a first indication of input, receive, from the infrared camera, a second indication of input, and determine, based on at least one of the first indication of input or the second indication of input, an operation to be performed. |
| US10209831B2 |
Dead zone compensation for touch screens
A method of compensated touch data values disclosed herein includes acquiring touch data values about a dead sensing zone of a touch screen, and determining a peak value of those touch data values. Then, a new peak value is calculated as a function of an average of the peak value and another value of the touch data value, and a sharpness value for the dead sensing zone is generated if a second highest value of the touch data values is less than the new peak value. Thereafter, compensated touch data values are generated for the dead sensing zone if the second highest value is greater than the new peak value. |
| US10209827B1 |
Dynamic adjustment of demodulation waveform
A touch sensing system can demodulate sensor data using a dynamically adjusted demodulation waveform and/or demodulation window. The demodulation waveform and/or demodulation window can be dynamically adjusted to account for dynamically changing noise in a touch sensing system. The system can dynamically adjust the demodulation window based on noise measured by the touch sensing system to generate an optimized or otherwise noise-tailored window to suppress detected noise. In some examples, the noise measured by the touch sensing system can be sampled from sense channels localized to a detected touch. |
| US10209826B2 |
Touch screen, touch panel, display device and electronic apparatus
A touch screen includes a first shield wiring surrounding a plurality of sensor wirings and a plurality of lead wirings, and capacitors. The distance between the first shield wiring and the outermost lead wiring which is the outermost wiring, out of the plurality of lead wirings, is larger than the intervals between the plurality of lead wirings. The capacitors are constituted by first and second electrodes including extending portions which extend in the extending direction. |
| US10209821B2 |
Computing devices having swiping interfaces and methods of operating the same
Computing devices may include one or more swiping interfaces provided on a base portion and/or a display portion of the computing device. For example, a computing device may include a display disposed within a housing, and a plurality of touch cells in a linear arrangement along an edge portion of the housing. Each of the plurality of touch cells may emit touch fields through the housing at a corresponding surface of the housing. The computing device may also include a processor that can execute machine-readable instructions, allowing the computing device to receive a plurality touch input signals from the plurality of touch cells, and to operate the computing device in response to the received plurality of touch input signals. |
| US10209819B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device comprises a display module including a plurality of touch electrodes, a cover window covering a front surface of the display module, a housing including an electrically conductive housing plate disposed below a rear surface of the display module and a housing side wall surrounding at least a portion of a side surface of the display module or supporting the display module, and a driving circuit sensing variation in capacitance between one or more of the touch electrodes and the housing plate, caused by a change in distance between said one or more of the touch electrodes and the housing plate. |
| US10209814B2 |
Image processing device and image processing method
Disclosed are an image processing device and an image processing method. The image processing device comprises: a display means, which is configured to display an operation object, a touch means, which is configured to detect a first action and a second action of a touch operation, and a processing means, which is configured to determine a first position of the first action on the operation object and a second position of the second action on the operation object and to adjust a display parameter at the first position on the operation object and a display parameter at the second position. Employment of the present invention allows for content having a user-personalized operation to be photographed or produced and allows implementation of partial display parameter adjustment. |
| US10209808B1 |
Pressure-based interface system, method, and computer program product with virtual display layers
Apparatuses and a computer-readable media are provided to: display an object and at least a portion of an interface in a same virtual display layer; detect a single static gesture being applied to the touch screen on the object, the single static gesture varying in pressure between a plurality of discrete touch states; perform a first pressure-dependent step-wise function in response to a first change in the discrete touch states; perform a second pressure-dependent step-wise function in response to a second change in the discrete touch states; and during at least a portion of the gesture and as a function of an increase in a magnitude of the pressure of the gesture being applied to the touch screen on the object, continuously blur the at least portion of the interface such that the at least portion of the interface and the object are displayed in different virtual display layers. |
| US10209807B1 |
Pressure sensitive touch screen system, method, and computer program product for hyperlinks
Apparatuses and a computer-readable media are provided to: display a hyperlink and text via an interface, such that the hyperlink and the text are located in a same virtual display layer; detect a gesture being applied to the touch screen on the hyperlink, the gesture capable of causing a plurality of touch states; during a first touch state of the plurality of touch states, display the hyperlink in a first virtual display layer and the text in a second virtual display layer; during the first touch state of the plurality of touch states and based on an increase in a pressure being applied to the touch screen on the hyperlink, increase a blurring of the text; during the first touch state of the plurality of touch states and based on a decrease in the pressure being applied to the touch screen on the hyperlink, decrease the blurring of the text; during a second touch state of the plurality of touch states, vibrate the apparatus, during the second touch state of the plurality of touch states, display, in different virtual display layers, at least a portion of the interface that is blurred and at least a portion of a window; during the second touch state of the plurality of touch states and based on another increase in the pressure being applied to the touch screen, increase a size of the at least portion of the window; during the second touch state of the plurality of touch states and based on another decrease in the pressure being applied to the touch screen, decrease the size of the at least portion of the window. |
| US10209806B1 |
Tri-state gesture-equipped touch screen system, method, and computer program product
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for operating a mobile device including a touch screen, a memory, and a vibratory feedback mechanism coupled to at least one processor. A plurality of applications including an application is stored, utilizing the memory. A first pressure signal indicative of a first magnitude of pressure being applied to the touch screen is identified. In response to the first pressure signal indicative of the first magnitude of pressure being applied to the touch screen, a first state is identified, utilizing the at least one processor. In response to the identification of the first state, an operation is performed, utilizing the at least one processor. A second pressure signal is identified indicative of a second magnitude of pressure being applied to the touch screen that is greater than the first magnitude, in connection with the indicia. In response to the second pressure signal indicative of the second magnitude of pressure being applied to the touch screen, a second state is identified, utilizing the at least one processor. In response to the identification of the second state, the mobile device is vibrated, utilizing the vibratory feedback mechanism. Also in response to the identification of the second state, another operation is performed. |
| US10209803B2 |
Touch sensor and liquid crystal display including the same
There are provided a touch sensor and a liquid crystal display including the same. A touch sensor includes a plurality of driving electrodes, a plurality of sensing electrodes intersecting the driving electrodes, a plurality of piezoelectric materials disposed between the driving electrodes and the sensing electrodes at intersection points of the driving electrodes and the sensing electrodes, and a touch controller for detecting a touch position and a touch pressure by using sensing signals output from the sensing electrodes. |
| US10209801B2 |
Bendable device with display in movable connection with body
A bendable device is provided. The device comprises: a body comprising a bending region and a flexible display stack comprising at least one active layer and a supporting layer positioned on the bottom of the flexible display stack. The supporting layer of the flexible display stack comprises one or more fastening areas; the body comprises one or more fastening components; and one or more fastening components of the body are configured to be operable in a movable connection with one or more fastening areas of the flexible display stack. |
| US10209794B2 |
Device for touch-sending functions, display panel containing the same, and method for operating the same
The present disclosure provides a device for touch-sensing. The device includes a touch surface configured to receive a touch by an object; a measuring portion configured to measure a blood oxygen level of the object; and a control portion configured to calculate a level of pressing force corresponding to the blood oxygen level. |
| US10209791B2 |
Electronic device and panel device
An electronic device can effectively transmit sound even if a force is applied to a panel by an ear. The electronic device includes a panel (10) and a vibration unit (30) that vibrates the panel (10) to generate air-conducted sound and vibration sound that is transmitted through a portion of a human body. The intensity of vibration of the vibration unit (30) changes in accordance with the force applied to the panel (10). |
| US10209786B2 |
Projector system
An imaging section receives, as detection light, the components within a wavelength band different from the wavelength band contained in projection light (image light) that is light containing a visible wavelength band. As a result, even when the detection light and the projection light are each formed of light containing a visible wavelength band, the imaging section can reliably distinguish the detection light from the projection light and therefore detect only the detection light. |
| US10209784B2 |
Combination type mouse
A combination type mouse includes a supporting plate, a lower cover plate, a main circuit board, plural main connectors, an input module and a control module. The main circuit board is installed on an installation surface of the supporting plate. The plural main connectors are installed on the main circuit board and electrically connected with the main circuit board. The input module includes a first connector and a connecting recess. The first connector is electrically connected with a first main connector of the plural main connectors. The control module includes a second connector and a connecting part. The second connector is electrically connected with a second main connector of the plural main connectors. The connecting part is engaged with the connecting recess. Consequently, the components of the combination type mouse to be assembled can be determined according to the user's requirement. |
| US10209781B2 |
Input device with contoured region
Embodiments of the invention are directed to input devices configured for use with computing devices. The present invention relates to input device configured with a plurality of input members grouped into contoured-shaped bowls on a portion of the input devices. The input device may also be configured for use with multiple hand positions and multiple profiles based on the hand positions. The input device may enable switching between user-programmable profiles, and may include sensory feedback indicating the profiles active on the input device. |
| US10209778B2 |
Motion pattern classification and gesture recognition
Methods, program products, and systems for gesture classification and recognition are disclosed. In general, in one aspect, a system can determine multiple motion patterns for a same user action (e.g., picking up a mobile device from a table) from empirical training data. The system can collect the training data from one or more mobile devices. The training data can include multiple series of motion sensor readings for a specified gesture. Each series of motion sensor readings can correspond to a particular way a user performs the gesture. Using clustering techniques, the system can extract one or more motion patterns from the training data. The system can send the motion patterns to mobile devices as prototypes for gesture recognition. |
| US10209775B2 |
Using a magnetic actuation mechanism to provide tactile feedback to a user interacting with a virtual environment
An input interface for a virtual reality (VR) system environment includes one or more actuators that, when activated, prevent movement of the input interface by a user. For example, the input interface has magnetic actuation mechanism preventing movement of certain portions of the input interface when actuated, allowing simulation of interactions with virtual objects in a virtual environment presented by the VR system environment. In one embodiment, the input interface includes one or more magnets on a tendon or other portion of the input interface that moves with a portion of the user's body and one or more additional magnets fixed relative to the input interface. Magnets on the portion of the input interface that moves with the portion of the user's body and the fixed additional magnets act as a soft detent mechanism holding the portion of the user's body in one or more specified positions. |
| US10209774B2 |
Haptically-enabled system with braking
A haptically-enabled system includes an actuator that has a first terminal and a second terminal. The second terminal is coupled to a voltage source, and a first switch is coupled to the first terminal and to ground. A second switch is coupled to the actuator. The second switch is parallel to the actuator. |
| US10209773B2 |
Methods and systems for obtaining, aggregating, and analyzing vision data to assess a person's vision performance
The present specification describes methods and systems for modifying a media, such as Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, or Mixed Reality (VR/AR/MxR) media based on a vision profile and a target application. In embodiments of the specification, a Sensory Data Exchange (SDE) is created that enables identification of various vision profiles for users and user groups. The SDE may be utilized to modify one or more media in accordance with each type of user and/or user group. |
| US10209772B2 |
Hands-free time series or chart-based data investigation
Described herein are methods, systems, and computer program products for providing supplementary information with an initial visualization. To provide supplementary information, a display device can provide the initial visualization, a gaze tracker can capture gaze direction data from a user viewing the initial visualization, and a processor of a computing device can process the gaze direction data to determine a point of interest. The display device can then provide the supplementary information with the initial visualization based on the point of interest. |
| US10209770B2 |
Information processing apparatus and information processing method
There is provided an information processing apparatus that controls display of a virtual object displayed in an extended work space in which a real object and the virtual object are operable, the information processing apparatus including an operation deciding unit configured to decide an operation process to the virtual object displayed in the extended work space on the basis of a result of analysis of input information to the extended work space, the analysis being based on position information of an information terminal detected in the extended work space and display control trigger information for changing display of the virtual object, and a display control unit configured to execute a display control process of the virtual object on the basis of the decided operation process. |
| US10209765B2 |
Method for achieving low power consumption of three-dimensional measurement chip
The present invention includes means of using a customized coprocessor to replace a main processor to process or interact with a data processing unit in a complex scene and reducing clock frequencies of the main processor and related modules, thereby achieving low power consumption of the three-dimensional measurement chip. The present invention includes: step 1: determining a system structure of a three-dimensional measurement processing chip; step 2: classifying data processing units according to scene requirements; step 3: adding coprocessors on a system bus; step 4: designing a customized coprocessor or small data control unit; step 5: designing a semi-customized coprocessor or small data control unit; step 6: optimizing software codes and reducing a clock frequency; step 7: verifying the chip to confirm that the chip satisfies design requirements. The present invention is applicable to a plurality of integrated circuits or any internetwork system consisting of a plurality of integrated circuits. |
| US10209761B2 |
Methods and apparatus for a power management unit
Various embodiments of the present technology may comprise a method and apparatus for a power management unit. The power management unit may be configured to operate in conjunction other integrated circuits to mitigate power dissipation. The power management unit may receive temperature information from a temperature sensor and deploy various power management schemes to reduce the leakage power of an SRAM. The power management schemes may be based on the particular characteristics of the SRAM. |
| US10209757B2 |
Reducing power consumption in a multi-slice computer processor
Reducing power consumption in a multi-slice computer processor that includes a re-order buffer and an architected register file, including: designating an entry in the re-order buffer as being invalid and unwritten; assigning a pending instruction to the entry in the re-order buffer; responsive to assigning the pending instruction to the entry in the re-order buffer, designating the entry as being valid; writing data generated by executing the pending instruction into the re-order buffer; and responsive to writing data generated by executing the pending instruction into the re-order buffer, designating the entry as being written. |
| US10209752B2 |
Method for providing power to an electronic device
A method for providing power through a USB port of an electronic device includes connecting a power supply to a USB port of an electronic device, emulating a personal computer (PC) host system such that the electronic device believes that the power supply is a PC host system, retrieving at least one descriptor from the electronic device, identifying the electronic device from the at least one descriptor, and setting a charging voltage based upon the identity of the electronic device. |
| US10209750B2 |
SSD driven system level thermal management
A storage device capable of providing instructions to modify a cooling system in support of its own operations is described. The storage device may include data storage to store data. The storage device may also include one or more operation sensors to determine a change in the operating conditions of the storage device. Finally, the storage device may include a transmitter to transmit the change in the operation conditions of the storage device to a Thermal Management System (TMS). |
| US10209749B2 |
Workload allocation based on downstream thermal impacts
An apparatus for workload management includes a thermal relationship module, a thermal effect module, and a resource allocation module. The thermal relationship module determines a plurality of thermal relationships among components of an electronic device. Each thermal relationship quantifies a thermal impact on one of the components of utilizing another of the components. The thermal effect module determines one or more potential thermal effects of a workload on the components based on the thermal relationships. The one or more potential thermal effects correspond to one or more possible allocations of resources of at least a portion of the components to run the workload. The resource allocation module selects an allocation of resources from the one or more possible allocations of resources to run the workload, based on the determined potential thermal effects. |
| US10209745B2 |
Input devices and methods of manufacturing
An input device is described. The input device may include at least four key caps of a keyset and a keyboard cover surrounding the at least four key caps. Each key cap of the at least four key caps may be separated by at least one gap. The at least one gap may be between 0.075 mm and 0.525 mm. A method of manufacturing an input device is described. The method may include measuring at least four keycaps in a keyset. Each key cap of the at least four key caps may be separated on a side from a keyboard cover by a gap. The method may include cutting a substrate to fit between the at least four keycaps in the keyset such that the gap of each of the at least four keys is between 0.075 mm and 0.525 mm. |
| US10209743B1 |
Flexible display device with positioning mechanism
A flexible display device includes a base support of structurally flexible, a flexible display which is supported by and bendable with the base support, and at least one positioning mechanism disposed leftward or rightward of the base support. The positioning mechanism includes two mounts which are mounted to two support plates of the base support, a plurality of hinge bodies which are structurally flexible with a support rib unit of the base support, and a leaf spring unit extending through inside of the hinge bodies to terminate at a first spring end secured in one of the mounts, and a second spring end which is releasably and frictionally engaged inside the other one of the mounts by virtue of a sliding block and a spring-loaded unit. |
| US10209742B2 |
Display expansion type mobile terminal with sliding motion
A display expansion type mobile terminal with a sliding motion, which is disclosed includes: a flexible display device; a fixed end frame to which the first front end is fixed; a via member provided independently of the fixed end frame; an extension frame which extends from the fixed end frame to a position adjacent to the via member in the predetermined display size adjustment direction A; a movable member which is spaced apart from the via member by an interval corresponding to a length of the extension frame; and a connection member. |
| US10209741B2 |
Flexible display screen electronic apparatus and control system thereof
A flexible display screen electronic apparatus and a control system thereof are provided. The flexible display screen electronic apparatus includes: an apparatus body, and a flexible display screen and a second roller which are disposed on the apparatus body. The flexible display screen includes a first end and a second end opposite to the first end, the first end is disposed on the apparatus body, the second end is fixed on a second roller, and the flexible display screen is configured to be windable around the second roller; and display surface area between the second end and the first end is variable. The flexible display screen electronic apparatus can change the size of the display screen flexibly as required to meet different demands of users. |
| US10209740B2 |
Ejection mechanism for docked electronic device
Disclosed is a docking station for holding an electronic device including a main body, a vertical support, a horizontal support, a cut-out in the horizontal support, and an ejection mechanism. The ejection mechanism includes a base member, a top member, an extension member disposed on the top member, an electrical connector disposed on the extension member, and a first and second bars hingedly connecting the base member to the top member. The top member is configured to be disposed in a first position in which the electrical connector is disposed at a first height with respect to the horizontal support and substantially parallel to the vertical support. The top member is further configured to be disposed in a second position in which the electrical connector is disposed at a second height with respect to the horizontal member and substantially non-parallel with the vertical support. The second height is less than the first height. |
| US10209738B1 |
Apparatus, system, and method for adjusting head-mounted-display straps
A head-mounted-display adjustment apparatus may include a spring with a restoring force that is, within an elastic limit of the spring, substantially disproportional to deflection of the spring. The adjustment apparatus may also include a mount that couples the spring to a head-mounted display. In addition, the adjustment apparatus may include a strap with a distal section coupled to the head-mounted display and a proximal section coupled to the spring such that (1) the strap is extendable, via deflection of the spring, away from the head-mounted display and (2) when a user is wearing the head-mounted display, the restoring force of the spring holds, via the strap, the head-mounted display against the user's face. Various other head-mounted-display adjustment devices, systems, and methods are also disclosed. |
| US10209735B1 |
High-speed quadrature clock generator and method thereof
An apparatus is configured to receive a two-phase input clock and output a four-phase output clock, the apparatus includes a first data latch and a second data latch configured in a ring topology with a negative feedback based on inter-connection through a four-phase level-shifted clock, the first data latch configured to receive a fourth phase and a second phase of the level-shifted clock and output a first phase and a third phase of the output clock along with a first phase and a third phase of the level-shifted clock in accordance with a first phase of the input clock, the second data latch configured to receive the first phase and the third phase of the level-shifted clock and output a second phase and a fourth phase of the output clock along with the second phase and the fourth phase of the level-shifted clock in accordance with a second phase of the input clock. |
| US10209727B2 |
Power distribution systems and methodology
The invention addresses the needs associated with the entire data center power distribution lifecycle—design, build, operation and upgrades. The design and construction is facilitated by a system for prefabricating power whips that accommodate changing data center needs. The invention also allows for upgrading power supply components without powering down critical equipment. Improved power and network strips and associated logic further facilitate data center operation. |
| US10209726B2 |
Secure input voltage adjustment in processing devices
Secure voltage adjustment techniques for computing systems and processing devices are presented herein. In one example, a method of controlling operating voltages for a processing device includes initializing a security portion of the processing device after application of input voltages to the processing device as supplied by voltage regulation circuitry according to voltage identifiers (VIDs) established for the processing device. The method includes, in the security portion, generating adjusted input voltages based on at least the VIDs and authenticated voltage offset information stored according to a digitally signed security process, and instructing the voltage regulation circuitry to supply the adjusted input voltages to the processing device. |
| US10209724B2 |
Voltage regulator
A voltage regulator includes an operational amplifier that compares a feedback voltage that is proportional to an output voltage and a predetermined reference voltage that corresponds to a desired output voltage. The operational amplifier controls the conduction state of an output transistor according to the comparison. A detecting circuit monitors the operating state of the operational amplifier, and in the case that the operational amplifier is not operating, outputs a signal which causes the output transistor to be placed in a non-conductive state. |
| US10209722B2 |
Mixed water faucet with fixed main and detachable auxiliary spouts
A mixer water faucet for installation through a bore in a work surface in proximity to a water supply, includes a stationary housing extending transversely through the bore; a faucet body mounted onto the housing, rotatable relative thereto; a main spout and an auxiliary spout extending from the housing; a main water supply hose for conveying water to the main spout and an auxiliary water supply hose for conveying water to the auxiliary spout, the main water supply hose and the auxiliary water supply hose extending through the housing; and a diverter for selectably directing a supply of water to the main spout and the auxiliary spout. |
| US10209720B2 |
Method and system for operating irrigation systems motors
An irrigation system includes a central pivot and a series of mobile towers connected to the central pivot and to one another by support structure. Each mobile tower has wheels and a motor for driving at least one of the wheels. A control system operates the motors to maintain alignment of the mobile towers and the central pivot while preventing power usage of the system from exceeding a maximum power threshold. The control system determines in which sequence to operate the motors to maintain alignment of the mobile towers while operating no more than a selected number of the motors simultaneously. |
| US10209717B2 |
Autonomous guidance system
An autonomous guidance system that operates a vehicle in an autonomous mode includes a camera module, a radar module, and a controller. The camera module outputs an image signal indicative of an image of an object in an area about a vehicle. The radar module outputs a reflection signal indicative of a reflected signal reflected by the object. The controller determines an object-location of the object on a map of the area based on a vehicle-location of the vehicle on the map, the image signal, and the reflection signal. The controller classifies the object as small when a magnitude of the reflection signal associated with the object is less than a signal-threshold. |
| US10209709B2 |
LIDAR sensor frost detection
A vehicle system includes a processor programmed to receive sensor signals from a LIDAR sensor. The processor estimates frost accumulation on the LIDAR sensor from the sensor signals and compares the estimated frost accumulation to a predetermined threshold. The processor further prevents a host vehicle from operating in an autonomous mode if the estimated frost accumulation exceeds the predetermined threshold. |
| US10209706B2 |
Monitoring and reporting of industrial equipment status
A system includes one or more sensors coupled to industrial equipment, wherein the one or more sensors are configured to obtain one or more measurements associated with one or more operating characteristics of the industrial equipment. The system also includes a computing device that includes a user interface and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: receive the one or more measurements of the one or more operating characteristics of the industrial equipment; determine a status of the industrial equipment based on the one or more measurements; determine a date and a time based on the one or more measurements; and update a cell in a grid of cells organized according to time increments based on the status, the date, and the time. |
| US10209699B2 |
Machine control panel
A key switch on a machine control panel is provided with two contacts such that the machine control panel can include two independent communication circuits. Signals from a double-contact key switch are received by the two communication circuits, and safety-related signals are transmitted from the communication circuits to a numerical controller through a bus. The signals received by the numerical controller are compared with each other so that they can be made to comply with the safety standards by monitoring the integrity of the safety function. |
| US10209694B2 |
System and method for managing switched hierarchical control states
An input-output apparatus which is used in a process control system is provided. The input-output apparatus includes a first interface to which a lower-level apparatus is connected; a second interface to which a higher-level apparatus is connected; a third interface to which an external setting apparatus is connected; a switcher which switches between a connection of the second interface to the first interface and a connection of the third interface to the first interface; and a control device which, when in a first state in which the second interface is connected to the first interface by the switcher and the connection of the third interface to the first interface is permitted, controls the switcher to cause transitioning to a second state in which the third interface and the first interface are connected when a connection request to the first interface is input through the third interface. |
| US10209692B2 |
Selectively connecting a climate control system controller with more than one destination server
Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of controllers and methods for controlling a climate control system. In an exemplary embodiment, a climate control system controller for controlling operation of a climate control system of a structure generally includes a processor, memory, and network interface configured to provide the climate control system controller with wireless network connectivity. The climate control system controller is selectively connectable, in response to user input, with each of a plurality of destination servers remote from the structure. |
| US10209690B2 |
Systems and methods for provisioning devices using acoustic signals
A computer system is communicably coupled to one or more sensor devices. The computer system obtains a database of stored acoustic signatures characterizing predefined acoustic signals generated by passive tags in response to physical motion of the passive tags. The passive tags are associated with non-provisioned devices, and the acoustic signatures are associated with sets of executable instructions for provisioning the non-provisioned devices. A first acoustic signal characterized by a respective acoustic signature and generated by a first passive tag is detected. In response, and based on the respective acoustic signature and information in the database, a first non-provisioned device associated with the respective acoustic signature is identified, and a first set of executable instructions for provisioning the first non-provisioned device is identified. After, the computer system causes execution of the first set of executable instructions, thereby causing to commence a software process for provisioning the first non-provisioned device. |
| US10209686B2 |
Flight simulation and control method of a unmanned aerial vehicle with regenerative fuel cells and solar cells for high altitude long endurance, and a control apparatus thereof
Provided are a flight simulation and control method of a unmanned aerial vehicle with regenerative fuel cells and solar cells for high altitude long endurance, and a control apparatus thereof. The high altitude long endurance simulation method for an unmanned aerial vehicle based on regenerative fuel cells and solar cells includes: a variable inputting step of inputting design variables of the unmanned aerial vehicle based on regenerative fuel cells and solar cells; a modeling step of performing modeling of the unmanned aerial vehicle based on regenerative fuel cells and solar cells using the design variables input in the variable inputting step; and an analyzing step of analyzing a modeling result in the modeling step to perform a high altitude long endurance simulation while controlling any one of the design variables input in the variable inputting step. |
| US10209685B2 |
Method and apparatus for preconditioned model predictive control
A method for a model predictive control (MPC) of a system determines entries of an approximate coefficient matrix only at locations identified in a map of locations as significant. The map of locations identifies each location of an entry in the approximate coefficient matrix as either significant or insignificant. The entries are determined using one or combination of an approximate coefficient function and an exact coefficient function. Next, the method determines a preconditioner using the approximate coefficient matrix and determines a solution vector by solving a matrix equation of the MPC with a coefficient matrix defined by an exact coefficient function at a current time step of a control using an iterative method with the preconditioner. The method generates a control signal for controlling the system using the solution vector. |
| US10209682B1 |
Autonomous traction measurement of a surface
Embodiments are directed to an inventory system having one or more drive units that are used, in part, to measure traction of a surface. Traction of the surface may be one of many features that can help with the operation of drive units and may also help avoid collisions between drive units when little room is available between the drive units for navigational errors. |
| US10209678B2 |
Pointer type bluetooth intelligently time-corrected clock movement
The invention discloses a pointer type Bluetooth intelligently time-corrected clock movement, comprising a movement body, wherein the bottom of the movement body is provided with a cell box, the surface of the cell box is provided with a disassembling hole, an hourly chiming module is provided at one side of the cell box, a central microprocessor is provided at one side of the hourly chiming module, a Bluetooth communication module is provided at one side of the central microprocessor, a power management circuit is provided at the other side of the cell box, and a display screen is provided at one end of the power management circuit. According to the invention, through an integrated technological application of “optics, electron, mechanical transmission and wireless communication”, the control over a mechanical gear assembly is accomplished; through wirelessly receiving time information on an APP software and combining an operating principle of the central microprocessor controlling over a core plate and an optic-coupling device, a novel automatically time-corrected clock product is accomplished. The pointer type Bluetooth intelligently time-corrected clock movement is relatively practical, relatively high in precision, free of influences from factors of geography, signals and the like, and is suitable for broad promotion and use. |
| US10209676B2 |
Method for manufacturing a timepiece component
The invention relates to a method which comprises the steps of providing a plate (2) made of a micromachinable material, forming the timepiece component (1) with at least one attachment (3) for keeping the component attached to the rest of the plate (2), by etching the plate (2); and creating, along a desired breakage line of the attachment, a pre-detachment area (4) comprising at least one gap (5) obtained by etching into the body of the plate (2). |
| US10209674B2 |
Floating image display device
A floating image display device includes an image display unit that displays a display image based on a first image signal, a floating-image-formation optical system that forms an image in air as a floating image from the display image, a guide image display unit that displays a guide image based on a second image signal nearby the floating image to be visually recognized on the same plane as the floating image as viewed from a viewer, and an image control unit that supplies the first image signal and the second image signal respectively to the image display unit and the guide image display unit. The image control unit supplies an image signal as the second image signal to the guide image display unit after the image signal undergoes at least one of a process of adding blurring, a process of lowering luminance and a process of lowering contrast. |
| US10209672B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment includes an image forming unit, a heating unit, a fan, a guide, and a control unit. The image forming unit forms an image on a recording medium. The heating unit is disposed on a downstream side of the image forming unit in a transport direction of the recording medium. The heating unit is driven with at least two temperatures, a first temperature and a second temperature lower than the first temperature. The fan generates wind. The guide guides the wind generated from the fan to the heating unit. The control unit controls the fan and the guide when the control unit controls the heating unit by switching between driving the heating unit at the first temperature and at the second temperature. |
| US10209669B2 |
Developer carrier, developing device, and image forming apparatus
A developer carrier includes a transmitting member that is rotatable and transmits a driving force; and a developer carrying member that carries developer and is provided coaxially with the transmitting member, the developer carrying member being rotatable when receiving the driving force from the transmitting member, the developer carrying member being displaceable with respect to the transmitting member in an intersecting direction that intersects an axial direction of the transmitting member. |
| US10209666B2 |
Developing cartridge having protrusion provided at detection gear
A developing cartridge includes first and second rotary members. The first rotary member is rotatable from a first position to a second position and from the second position to a third position, and includes a first gear part and a first rib. The first rib extends along an addendum circle of the first gear part. The second rotary member includes a second gear part and a second rib protruding outward in a radial direction of the second rotary member. The second rib is in contact the first rib during rotation of the first rotary member from the first position toward the second position. The second rib is separated from the first rib during rotation of the first rotary member from the second position toward the third position. |
| US10209665B2 |
Cleaning device and image forming apparatus
A cleaning device includes a blade and a seal member including a first portion having first, second and third surfaces and including a second portion having a fourth surface. The first surface opposes a free end surface of the blade. The second surface is connected with the first surface. The third surface is connected with the first and second surfaces and is perpendicular to the free end surface. The fourth surface is parallel to the third surface and the free end surface. A first interior corner line is formed by the free end surface and the third surface so as to be substantially parallel to a thickness direction of the blade. A second interior corner line is formed by the third surface and the fourth surface so as to be connected with said first interior corner line and be substantially parallel to a height direction of the blade. |
| US10209662B2 |
Scanner apparatus, image forming apparatus employing the same, and skew correction method
A scanner apparatus includes a document feeding path in which a reading device configured to read an image from a document is provided, a first registration roller configured to feed the document along the document feeding path, and located at an upstream side of the reading device based on a feeding direction of the document, a second registration roller aligned with the first registration roller in a width direction of the document, and located spaced apart from the first registration roller in the width direction, a registration motor configured to drive the first registration roller, and a main motor configured to drive the second registration roller. |
| US10209658B2 |
Image forming system, image forming apparatus, tone correction method, non-transitory recording medium storing computer readable tone correction program, and image density correction method
An image forming system includes: a density detecting section that detects the density of a toner image formed on an image bearing member by an image forming section, the density being detected as an output image density; a hardware processor which performs; tone correction in accordance with input-output characteristics data indicating the relationship between an input image density and an output image density, the input image density being the image density of a tone component included in the input image data, the output image density being detected by the density detecting section in accordance with the tone component; determining whether there is a missing tone component in the input image data; and complementing the input-output characteristics data corresponding to a missing tone component, when it is determined that there is the missing tone component. |
| US10209657B2 |
Image forming apparatus, image forming system, and notification method
An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming portion that includes a developing portion configured to supply toner to an image bearing member bearing an electrostatic latent image formed thereon to develop the electrostatic latent image as a toner image, and is configured to form a toner image on a long paper sheet; a notification portion configured to notify a user about information; and a control portion configured to calculate, in accordance with coverage of a toner image that is a target of image formation, a toner image formation distance with which successive image formation is possible without forcibly discharging degraded toner from the developing portion, and to control the notification portion to notify the calculated toner image formation distance as a first toner image formation distance. |
| US10209654B2 |
Fixing device and image forming apparatus
A fixing device includes a rotary endless fixing belt; a nip forming member disposed in an interior of the fixing belt; a rotary opposed member to contact the nip forming member via the fixing belt to form a nip together with the fixing belt; a heat source to directly heat the fixing belt at a portion other than the nip, including at lease one heat-generation part disposed outside lateral ends of a maximum area of the fixing belt where a recording medium passes through, wherein a recording medium carrying an unfixed image is conveyed to the nip and the fixing device fixes the unfixed image onto the recording medium; and a shielding member disposed between the fixing belt and the heat generation part of the heat source and configured to shield heat from the heat source at least at an area outside the maximum passing area of the recording medium. |
| US10209653B2 |
Image processing apparatus
An image processing apparatus comprises a heat roller configured to heat a sheet with heat generated by a plurality of heat generating elements and a controller configured to control a current supplied to the heat generating elements from an AC power supply. The controller controls a timing at which the current flows or does not flow to the heat generating elements according to a first set of control parameters, such that a total of a first sum of estimated absolute value magnitudes of a positive polarity current flowing to the heat generating elements during one duty cycle and a second sum of estimated absolute value magnitudes of a negative polarity current flowing to the heat generating elements during the one duty cycle, is lower when the heat generating elements are controlled according to the first set relative when the heat generating elements are controlled according to other sets. |
| US10209652B1 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus comprises a transfer section, a fixing section, and a controller. The transfer section includes a transfer rotating body for conveying a sheet at a first linear velocity, and transfers a toner image onto the sheet. The fixing section forms a nip sandwiching the sheet with a first rotating body and a second rotating body, and a heating section for heating the sheet onto which the toner image is transferred. The controller executes a sheet acceleration and deceleration control for setting a linear velocity of the first rotating body to a second linear velocity from the first linear velocity before the tip of the sheet reaches the nip, and decelerating the linear velocity of the first rotating body from the second linear velocity to the first linear velocity at the time the tip of the sheet reaches a predetermined range in a sheet conveyance path. |
| US10209651B2 |
Fixing device including cleaning web, image forming apparatus, and image forming method including standby mode cleaning
A fixing device includes a pressure rotator to press against a fixing rotator to form a fixing nip therebetween, through which a recording medium is conveyed. A cleaning web cleans one of the fixing rotator and the pressure rotator. A web driver displaces the cleaning web to change a contact portion of the cleaning web, which contacts the one of the fixing rotator and the pressure rotator. A controller performs a temperature maintenance and rotation control to heat and rotate the fixing rotator at a predetermined time when the fixing device is in a standby mode in which the recording medium is not conveyed through the fixing nip. The controller controls the web driver at a predetermined time to perform a standby mode cleaning control to change the contact portion of the cleaning web according to an implementation status of the temperature maintenance and rotation control. |
| US10209648B2 |
Image processing apparatus
In accordance with an embodiment, an image processing apparatus comprises a human sensor, a fixing device and a controller. The human sensor detects a person in the vicinity of the image processing apparatus. The fixing device carries out fixation of an image formed with a decolorable recording agent serving as a recording agent containing a coloring agent which is decolored through heating on a medium and decoloration of the image formed on the medium. The controller controls the fixing device to stop the decoloration of the image when the person is detected by the human sensor. |
| US10209641B2 |
Charging device, and image carrying member unit and image forming apparatus therewith
A charging device has a charging member, a pair of bearing members, and a frame. The charging member makes contact with an image carrying member to electrostatically charge the surface of the image carrying member. The bearing members rotatably support both end parts of the rotary shaft of the charging member. The frame supports the bearing members movably in the direction perpendicular to the axial direction. The bearing members are arranged selectively at a first position where they are arranged to keep the charging member in contact with the image carrying member or at a second position where they are arranged to keep the charging member apart from the image carrying member. In the bearing members, a restricting portion is formed which, at the second position, makes contact with the inner face of the frame to restrict the movement of the charging member in the axial direction. |
| US10209638B2 |
Electrophotographic photosensitive member
An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer has a single-layer structure and contains a charge generating material and a compound represented by general formula (1) shown below. In the general formula (1), R1 and R2 each represent, independently of each other: an alkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms and optionally substituted by an alkoxy group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or an alkoxycarbonyl group having 2 to 6 carbon atoms; an aryl group having 6 to 14 carbon atoms and optionally substituted by an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; an aralkyl group having 7 to 20 carbon atoms; or a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 10 carbon atoms. X represents —S— or —SO2—. |
| US10209636B1 |
Exposure focus leveling method using region-differentiated focus scan patterns
Pattern-dependent random deviations in measurement of optimal focus distances can be minimized by separating scan paths into multiple types of scan paths that scan only a respective predetermined image region in semiconductor dies. A substrate including in-process semiconductor dies is coated with a photoresist layer, and is located onto a stage in a lithographic exposure tool. Maps of optimal focus distances are generated by performing optimal focus distance scans that cover a respective subset of image regions having distinct image patterns. The substrate can be leveled with respect to an optics system of the lithographic exposure tool employing a weighted average of multiple maps of optimal focus distances. Once the substrate is leveled on the stage, a lithographic exposure process can be performed with enhanced uniformity in the focus distances across the in-process semiconductor dies. |
| US10209634B2 |
Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method
A lithographic apparatus comprising: a positioning stage (WT); an isolation frame (300); a projection system (PS), comprising a first frame (210); a second frame (220); a supporting frame (10) for supporting the positioning stage; a first vibration isolation system (250) and a second vibration isolation system (270), wherein the supporting frame and the first frame are coupled via the first vibration isolation system; a stage position measurement system (400) to determine directly the position of a stage reference of an element of the positioning stage in one or more degrees of freedom with respect to an isolation frame reference of an element of the isolation frame; and wherein the first frame and the isolation frame are coupled via the second vibration isolation system. |
| US10209629B2 |
Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method
A liquid supply system for an immersion lithographic apparatus provides a laminar flow of immersion liquid between a final element of the projection system and a substrate. A control system minimizes the chances of overflowing and an extractor includes an array of outlets configured to minimize vibrations. |
| US10209628B2 |
System and method for defect classification based on electrical design intent
A method for automatically classifying one or more defects based on electrical design properties includes receiving one or more images of a selected region of a sample, receiving one or more sets of design data associated with the selected region of the sample, locating one or more defects in the one or more images of the selected region of the sample by comparing the one or more images of the selected region of the sample to the one or more sets of design data, retrieving one or more patterns of interest from the one or more sets of design data corresponding to the one or more defects, and classifying the one or more defects in the one or more images of the selected region of the sample based on one or more annotated electrical design properties included in the one or more patterns of interest. |
| US10209625B2 |
Extreme ultraviolet light generating apparatus
An extreme ultraviolet light generating apparatus may include: a chamber, within which extreme ultraviolet light is generated from a droplet which is supplied to a predetermined region therein; an image forming optical system that forms an image of the droplet supplied to the predetermined region; an imaging element that captures an image of the formed image; a stage that moves the image forming optical system and/or the imaging element in an optical axis direction of the image forming optical system; a light energy measuring unit that measures light energy which is generated when the extreme ultraviolet light is generated; and a control unit that controls the stage based on a measured value of the light energy measured by the light energy measuring unit such that an image formation plane of the image of the droplet formed by the image forming optical system matches an imaging surface of the imaging element. |
| US10209624B2 |
Fluid handling structure, lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method
A fluid handling structure for a lithographic apparatus is disclosed, the fluid handling structure successively has, at a boundary from a space configured to contain immersion fluid to a region external to the fluid handling structure: an elongate opening or a plurality of openings arranged in a first line that, in use, are directed towards a substrate and/or a substrate table configured to support the substrate; a gas knife device having an elongate aperture in a second line; and an elongate opening or a plurality of openings adjacent the gas knife device. |
| US10209623B2 |
Exposure apparatus, exposure method, and method for producing device
A liquid immersion exposure apparatus includes a projection system, a movable stage, an alignment system and a measurement member. The projection system has a last optical element, and projects a beam onto a substrate through an immersion liquid. The movable stage has a holder by which the substrate is held. The alignment system detects an alignment mark on the substrate not through the immersion liquid. The measurement member is provided on the movable stage, and has a reference mark to be detected by the alignment system not through the immersion liquid. The measurement member has a material to form the reference mark, the material being covered with a light-transmissive material. The movable stage is movable to a position so that the measurement member is under the projection system and a gap between the projection system and the measurement member is filled with the immersion liquid. |
| US10209615B2 |
Simulating near field image in optical lithography
A method and an apparatus for determining near field images for optical lithography include receiving a thin mask image indicative of a photomask feature, in which the thin mask image is determined without considering a mask topography effect associated with the photomask feature, and determining a near field image from the thin mask image by a processor using an artificial neural network (ANN), in which the ANN uses the thin mask image as input. The apparatus includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory configured to store instructions executed by the processor to perform the method. |
| US10209614B2 |
Conductive film coated substrate, multilayer reflective film coated substrate, reflective mask blank, reflective mask, and semiconductor device manufacturing method
A conductive film coated substrate, including a conductive film formed thereon. In a relationship between a bearing area (%) and a bearing depth (nm) that are obtained by measuring, with an atomic force microscope, a region of 1 μm×1 μm of a surface of the conductive film, the surface of the conductive film satisfies a relationship that (BA70-BA30)/(BD70-BD30) is 15 or more and 260 or less (%/nm), and a maximum height (Rmax) is 1.3 nm or more and 15 nm or less. |
| US10209613B2 |
System and method for manufacturing planarized extreme ultraviolet lithography blank
An integrated extreme ultraviolet (EUV) blank production system includes: a vacuum chamber for placing a substrate in a vacuum; a first deposition system for depositing a planarization layer having a planarized top surface over the substrate; and a second deposition system for depositing a multi-layer stack on the planarization layer without removing the substrate from the vacuum. The EUV blank is in an EUV lithography system includes: an extreme ultraviolet light source; a mirror for directing light from the EUV source; a reticle stage for placing a EUV mask blank with a planarization layer; and a wafer stage for placing a wafer. The EUV blank includes: a substrate; a planarization layer to compensate for imperfections related to the surface of the substrate, the planarization layer having a flat top surface; and a multi-layer stack on the planarization layer. |
| US10209610B2 |
Laser light source module and scanning image display apparatus
In a laser light source module, a light source disposed on a base with a temperature adjusting element therebetween is covered by an inner cover, and is hermetically sealed by an outer cover. A top plate of the inner cover divides the inside of the outer cover into upper and lower sections and covers the light source from above. Side plates cover the side portions of the light source. Partitioning grid plates are provided in a space between the top plate and the outer cover, the partitioning grid plates dividing the space into multiple spaces. |
| US10209608B2 |
Liquid crystal projector apparatus
A liquid crystal projector apparatus includes: a plurality of display elements configured to individually modulate light of color components different from one another; and a controller configured to control the individual temperatures of the plurality of display elements. When the temperature of the display element in which a temperature rise rate is slowest among the plurality of display elements does not reach a predetermined temperature, the controller controls so that the temperatures of other display elements stay within a predetermined range that takes as a reference the temperature of the display element in which the temperature rise rate is slowest. |
| US10209607B2 |
Projector with a mirror mounted on the body for changing projection direction
Disclosed is a projector (1), comprising a projector body (10) with a lens (12), and a light reflection assembly (20) for adjusting a projecting direction of the lens (12). The light reflection assembly (20) comprises a reflective mirror (23), and the light reflection assembly (20) is provided to be rotatably connected with the projector body (10). During the rotation, a mirror face of the reflective mirror (23) always faces towards the lens (12), so that the reflective mirror (23) adjusts the angle of the projecting direction between the mirror face and the lens (12) with the rotation of the light reflection assembly (20), so as to adjust the projecting location of the lens (12) by means of the rotation of the reflective mirror (23), such that the projecting direction can be changed without moving the projector (1). |
| US10209606B1 |
Selfie stand apparatus and method of use
A selfie stand apparatus enables a fixture to be permanently installed in a location where taking pictures of one's self is common. The stand accommodates holding cameras, phones or the like of many configurations. The camera is placed on the stand and a timer or remote activator can be used to take a picture. |
| US10209604B2 |
Resonant enhanced frequency converter
A frequency converter for converting a single mode input beam at a fundamental frequency to an output beam at a converted frequency is configured with a plurality of spaced optical components defining a resonant cavity. The optical components shape the input beam with at least one beam waist in the cavity. The frequency converter further includes a non-linear crystal located within the cavity in either a divergent beam with a Rayleigh range smaller than a cavity round trip length so that a center of the crystal is spaced from the beam waist along a beam path, or in a collimated beam with a Rayleigh range greater than the cavity round trip length. |
| US10209600B2 |
Electrically conducting support for an electrochromic device, electrochromic device incorporating it, and its manufacture
An electrically conducting support for an electrochromic device and its manufacture; the electrically conducting support including, in this order: a substrate, an optional underlayer, a first inorganic layer on the optional underlayer or on the substrate, partially or completely structured in thickness with traversing holes or cavities, an electrode, made of metal grid with strands which exhibit, along their length, a rough central region between less rough lateral regions which are flush with the top surface, an electrically conducting coating made of inorganic material. |
| US10209597B1 |
System and method of manufacturing frameless LCD display
Disclosed is a display module and method of manufacturing the same, where the display module comprises a LCD panel, a driver IC for driving the LCD panel, and a FPC electrically coupled to the driver IC. The LCD panel includes an array of TFT pixels on a TFT array substrate. The TFT array substrate defines a driver cavity and one or more die cavities in which the driver IC and one or more other IC dies are disposed. The driver IC includes an image signal input pad and a driving signal output pad. The driver IC is configured to receive image signals from the FPC, to process the image signals into drive signals, and to transmit the drive signals to TFT pixels via an RDL electrical connection and a through-glass via through the TFT array substrate. |
| US10209596B2 |
Pixel structure, method of manufacturing the same, array substrate and display device
A pixel structure, an array substrate and a display device is provided. The pixel structure includes a base substrate, and a gate layer and a source/drain layer arranged on the base substrate. An overlapping region is present between the gate layer and the source/drain layer, and the gate layer and/or the source/drain layer comprises a hollow structure located in the overlapping region. |
| US10209594B2 |
Thin film transistor array substrate, manufacturing method therefor, and display device
A thin film transistor array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are provided, and the thin film transistor array substrate includes: a base substrate, a gate electrode disposed on the base substrate, a gate insulating layer and an active layer which are disposed on the gate electrode sequentially, and a pixel electrode, a common electrode, and a transparent electrode layer which are disposed on the base substrate; the transparent electrode layer and the pixel electrode or the common electrode are prepared in a same layer and by a same material; the transparent electrode layer is disposed under the gate insulating layer; an orthogonal projection of the active layer on the base substrate is located within a region of an orthogonal projection of the transparent electrode layer. |
| US10209585B2 |
Display panel and method of manufacturing the same
A display panel includes a first base substrate, a gate line disposed on the first base substrate and extending in a first direction, a gate electrode electrically connected to the gate line, a thin film transistor including an active pattern which includes a source area, a drain area and a channel area overlapping the gate electrode, a common electrode disposed on the first base substrate, where a common voltage is applied to the common electrode, an auxiliary common electrode line electrically connected to the common electrode, and including an opaque metal, a pixel electrode electrically connected to the thin film transistor, and disposed on the common electrode to overlap the common electrode, and a cover electrode connected to the auxiliary common electrode line, and overlapping the channel area. |
| US10209584B2 |
Manufacturing method of metal layer, functional substrate and manufacturing method thereof, and display device
A manufacturing method of a metal layer, a functional substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The manufacturing method of a metal layer includes: forming an insulating layer on a base substrate; forming an etching buffer layer on the insulating layer; patterning the etching buffer layer and the insulating layer to form a plurality of recessed microstructures in the insulating layer; stripping the etching buffer layer; and forming a metal layer on the insulating layer, a surface of the metal layer adjacent to the insulating layer is formed with a plurality of protruded portions which are filled into the plurality of recessed microstructures. The manufacturing method of a metal layer may form a metal layer with anti-reflection effect. |
| US10209581B2 |
Display panel having stable maintenance ratio with viewing angle changed in different gray levels
A display panel includes a liquid crystal layer positioned between first and second substrates. The first substrate comprises scan lines and data lines intersected to define pixel regions. Each pixel region comprises an electrode having two extending portions parallel to the extending direction of the data lines and one bending portion positioned between and connecting the two extending portions. A dark pattern including a first dark pattern and plural second dark patterns is generated when a light passes the pixel region. The first dark pattern is corresponding to the bending portion and parallel to the scan line. The second dark patterns correspond to the two extending portions. The first dark pattern has the first and second widths in the first (half of all gray levels) and second gray levels (maximum gray level), respectively. A ratio of the first width to the second width is 2.1 to 3.0. |
| US10209578B2 |
Display panel
A display panel includes a first substrate structure, a second substrate structure and a display medium layer. The first substrate structure includes a first substrate, a transmitting line, a first protrusion structure and a second protrusion structure. The transmitting line, the first protrusion structure and the second protrusion structure are disposed on the first substrate. The second substrate structure includes a second substrate and a first spacer. The first spacer is disposed on the second substrate. The shape of a vertical projection of the first spacer projected on the first substrate is a polygonal shape having a first side, a second side, a third side, a first included angle and a second included angle. The first included angel is between the first side and the third side, and the first included angle is greater than 90 degrees. The second included angle is less than 90 degrees. |
| US10209577B2 |
Liquid crystal display panel
A liquid crystal display panel in one example includes first and second substrates facing each other; a sealant disposed between the first and second substrates, and corresponding to a perimeter of a display area; a first protective layer disposed over the first substrate; a second protective layer disposed over the first protective layer; and an adhesive groove part overlapping the sealant, and including a first contact groove passing through the first and second protective layers, and a second contact groove disposed adjacent to the first contact groove and passing through the second protective layer. Due to the adhesive groove part, the sealant can adhere to each of the first and second protective layers, whereby the attachment force of the liquid crystal display panel can be enhanced. |
| US10209575B2 |
Liquid crystal display device
A liquid crystal display device prevents an alignment film between an inorganic insulating film and a sealant from peeling off the inorganic insulating film in a seal portion. The device has a TFT substrate and a counter substrate bonded together by the sealant in the seal portion with liquid crystal sandwiched therebetween. The TFT substrate has pixels in a matrix pattern along with the alignment film, and the TFT substrate and the counter substrate are rectangular in external shape. The TFT substrate has a display area and a terminal area. The display area is formed surrounded by the sealant. The counter substrate is absent over the terminal area. The alignment film is disposed under the sealant on the TFT substrate. An oxide conductive film, disposed under the alignment film, is formed up to the edge of the TFT substrate and is in an electrically floating state. |
| US10209571B2 |
Curved liquid crystal display and method of manufacturing the same
A curved liquid crystal display (“LCD”) includes a thin film transistor (“TFT”) array substrate, a counter substrate facing the TFT array substrate, a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules of negative dielectric anisotropy and disposed between the TFT array substrate and the counter substrate, a liquid crystal alignment layer disposed between the liquid crystal layer and the counter substrate, a liquid crystal alignment base layer disposed between the liquid crystal layer and the TFT array substrate, and a liquid crystal alignment stabilization layer including projections spaced apart from each other on the liquid crystal alignment base layer between the liquid crystal layer and the liquid crystal alignment base layer, wherein the projections include reactive mesogen polymers, and one of the liquid crystal alignment layer and the liquid crystal alignment base layer includes the reactive mesogen polymers. |
| US10209569B2 |
Display panel and display apparatus
A display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a display medium layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first metal layer, a first insulation layer disposed on the first metal layer, a second metal layer, a second insulation layer disposed on the second metal layer, a pixel electrode layer and an intervening layer. The first metal layer is disposed on the first substrate to form a signal wiring and a gate. The second metal layer is disposed on the first insulation layer to form a data wiring, a source and a drain. The intervening layer is a patterned layer and disposed between the second insulation layer and the pixel electrode layer. The pixel electrode layer covers the intervening layer and the second insulation layer, and the perimeter of the intervening layer of a sub-pixel ranges between 500 μm and 30000 μm. |
| US10209565B2 |
Reflection member, illumination device, surface light source device, display device, and electronic equipment
The present invention relates to illumination techniques and a reflection member that receives light from a light source and forms an irradiated area having a substantially polygonal shape in an irradiated plane, and an illumination device, a surface light source device, a display device, electronic equipment and the like using the same. |
| US10209564B2 |
Backlight module with porous optical film and a wavelength conversion layer disposed above a light source where the optical film has a plurality of light emission structures
A backlight module including a substrate, a light source, a porous optical film, and a wavelength conversion optical layer is provided. The light source is located on the substrate. The porous optical film is disposed over the light source and has a plurality of emission structures, and the porous optical film distributes light generated by the light source to be emitted through the emission structures located at different positions of the porous optical film. The porous optical film has a central region and a peripheral region surrounding the central region, the central region is disposed corresponding to the light source, and an area of the central portion is A. The wavelength conversion optical layer is located between the light source and the porous optical film, and a vertical projection area of the wavelength conversion optical film is B, where 0.49≤A/B≤5. |
| US10209563B2 |
Non-black dead front display assembly
A non-black dead front display assembly includes a display frame, a backlight system supported by the frame, the backlight system configured to generate backlight rays, a light mask disposed on the backlight system, a light mask disposed on the backlight system, the light mask configured to transmit or to block the backlight rays in response to a control signal, and a film positioned over the light mask, the film configured to reflect ambient light rays and to scatter the backlight rays transmitted through the light mask, the scattered backlight rays causing a first portion of the film to glow while a second portion of the film appears non-glowing. |
| US10209560B2 |
Backlight unit comprising a quantum dot powder having a first quantum dot, a first quantum dot, a second quantum dot, a first chain molecule, a second chain molecule, and a bead and display device including the same
The present application relates to a backlight unit and a display device including the same, and according to one aspect of the present application, there is provided a backlight unit including a light source, a light guide plate disposed at a side portion of the light source, and a light-modulating reflective film disposed below the light guide plate, wherein the light-modulating reflective film includes a first base film, a quantum dot film disposed to be in contact with a bottom of the first base film and including a quantum dot, a reflective film including a diffuse reflection material, and a second base film disposed to be in contact with a bottom of the reflective film, and the reflective film including a diffuse reflection material is disposed to be in contact with the quantum dot film. |
| US10209559B2 |
Dismantling device for liquid crystal display with driving component included
A device for dismantling a liquid crystal display includes a carrier platform, a dismantling bracket, a dividing piece and a driving component; the carrier platform includes a carrying surface for supporting the liquid crystal display to be dismantled thereon, and the liquid crystal display to be dismantled includes a display panel and a backlight unit bonded to each other; the dividing piece is located above the carrier platform and mounted onto the dismantling bracket; the dividing piece is capable of being driven by the driving component so as to move in a first direction and into a slit between the display panel and the backlight unit; and the first direction intersects with an extending direction of the dividing piece. The dismantling device for liquid crystal display can solve the problem that the display panel and the backlight unit are difficult to be dismantled. |
| US10209555B2 |
Display device
According to one embodiment, a display device, including a first insulating, a first common electrode located on a side of the first insulating layer, a second common electrode being adjacent to the first common electrode, and a second insulating, wherein the first insulating layer is in contact with the second insulating layer at a position corresponding to the first boundary portion, the second common electrode is contact with any one of the first and second insulating layers at a position corresponding to the second boundary portion, and being in contact with both the first and second insulating layers at a position corresponding to the third boundary portion. |
| US10209552B2 |
PDLC display panel, manufacturing method thereof, and LCD
The invention provides a PDLC display panel, manufacturing method thereof, and an LCD. The PDLC display panel comprises a PDLC layer, which comprising a plurality of red sub-pixel portions, green sub-pixel portions, and blue sub-pixel portions. The red, green and blue sub-pixel portion is a PDLC film having red, green and blue dye, respectively. The light passing through the red, green, and blue sub-pixel portions of the PDLC layer displays red, green and blue colors respectively. The PDLC display panel is simple in structure, on the premise to achieve color display, eliminating the upper and lower polarizers, polyimide (PI) alignment layer, CF layer and the black matrix, to achieve high light penetration rate and low manufacturing costs, as well as high backlight utilization with the use of quantum dot layer in the CF substrate. |
| US10209544B2 |
Flexible substrate and manufacturing method thereof and display device
The present invention discloses a flexible substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device, comprising: disposing a detachable layer on a rigid substrate, and fixing the flexible base on the rigid substrate by the detachable layer, wherein the detachable layer comprises a mesh layer and a plurality of mutually independent supporting parts disposed in meshes of the mesh layer; forming a functional layer on the flexible base to obtain a flexible substrate; separating the flexible substrate from the rigid substrate by applying an external force on the mesh layer. The present invention makes it easier for the flexible substrate to be stripped off after it is manufactured, improves the yield rate; moreover, the present invention has the process compatibility of ordinary production lines, and saves costs. |
| US10209539B1 |
Substrate cavity
A method for making an apparatus, a system, and apparatus, the apparatus and system each comprising a substrate with a top side, wherein the substrate has a set of cavities in the top side of the substrate, wherein the substrate has a set of conductive elements on the top side of the substrate arranged to electrically couple with a set of conductive elements of a photonic integrated circuit (PIC), wherein each cavity of the set of cavities when coupled to the PIC creates a surface tension when exposed to an underfill to cause the underfill to flow around each cavity. |
| US10209532B2 |
Switchable facemask for simulating smoke
A switchable facemask comprises a viewing window through which a user views the outside, the viewing window including a clear member; a film operably disposed across the clear member to cover the user's field of view; a power source operably connected to the film; and a switch for turning ON or OFF the power source. The film is switchable between a clear state such that the user can see through the clear member and a light obscuring state such that the user's field of view is obscured. The film is in one of the clear and light obscuring states when the switch is ON and the film is in another of the clear and light obscuring states when the switch is OFF. |
| US10209531B2 |
Optical device and display device
According to one embodiment, an optical device includes a first light-modulating element transmitting or scattering light, and a second light-modulating element transmitting or scattering the light passing through the first light-modulating element, a driving module alternately performing a first mode of making the first light-modulating element scatter the light and making the second light-modulating element transmit the light, and a second mode of making the first light-modulating element transmit the light and making the second light-modulating element scatter the light. |
| US10209528B1 |
Operation of an electromagnetic radiation focusing element
A combination of a focusing element, and a filtering element which naturally adjusts the cross-sectional area of a beam of electromagnetic radiation passed through the focusing element as a function of wavelength over a specified range of wavelengths, wherein the filtering element is not uniform, but rather varies as a selection from the group consisting of: optical density and/or thickness is greatest near the center thereof; and optical density and/or thickness is smallest near the center thereof; and can demonstrate neutral density characteristics outside the specified range of wavelengths. The combination of a focusing element, and a filtering element can optionally be present in an ellipsometer or polarimeter system. |
| US10209525B2 |
Head-up display device
A head-up display device includes a housing, a reflecting member, a projection light emitting unit, and a vibration transmitting member. The housing is fixed to a vehicle. The reflecting member is rotatably supported by the housing and is held at a rotation position. The projection light emitting unit projects projection light corresponding to information onto a window of the vehicle through the reflecting member. The vibration transmitting member is provided between the housing and the reflecting member and has elasticity. The vibration transmitting member is fixed to the housing and makes contact with the reflecting member in an elastically compressed state in an entire rotatable range of the reflecting member. |
| US10209524B2 |
Facial interface assemblies for use with head mounted displays
Technology is provided for a facial interface assembly for use with a head mounted display. The facial interface assembly includes a contoured spacer frame and an interchangeable face gasket removably attached to the contoured spacer frame. The contoured spacer frame includes a forehead interface portion, a pair of cheek interface portions, a bridge portion extending between the pair of cheek interface portions, and one or more attachment tabs configured to mate with a housing of the head mounted display. The face gasket includes a high-density foam layer, a low-density foam layer, and a fabric layer. |
| US10209518B2 |
Display apparatus
The present disclosure provides a display apparatus, in which a shift of a transmission or reflection wavelength characteristic due to an incident angle of light is suppressed, and observation of external light necessary for display and image light necessary for display is possible. The display apparatus of the present disclosure includes an image light generator that generates image light by use of light in each of at least a first wavelength band, a second wavelength band, and a third wavelength band, and a light synthesizing part that transmits external light and reflects the image light. The light synthesizing part has a transparent substrate having a concave surface on which the image light is reflected, and a film that is provided on the concave surface of the substrate, reflects the image light, and transmits light in a predetermined wavelength band of the external light. |
| US10209517B2 |
Holographic waveguide eye tracker
An eye tracker having a first waveguide for propagating illumination light along a first waveguide path and propagating image light reflected from at least one surface of an eye along a second waveguide path. At least one grating lamina for deflecting the illumination light out of the first waveguide path towards the eye and deflecting the image light into the second waveguide path towards a detector is disposed adjacent an optical surface of the waveguide. |
| US10209516B2 |
Display control method for prioritizing information
An apparatus includes a user action state obtaining circuit configured to obtain an action state of a user; and a display control circuit configured to control a display to modify display information based on the action state. |
| US10209511B2 |
Spatial light modulator for actuating microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) structures
A spatial light modulator is provided by positioning and repositioning micromirrors of a microelectromechanical system. The micromirrors are positioned by an actuator linked to the micromirrors by a frame. The actuator responds to a control signal having voltages that create electrical fields. The electrical fields provide forces that change the positions of the micromirrors in such a way that a light beam striking the micromirrors reflects as a modulated light beam. |
| US10209507B2 |
Electrowetting display device with barrier structure
An electrowetting display device comprises a first support plate comprising a first electrode and a second support plate. A seal connects the first support plate to the second support plate. A first fluid and a second fluid, immiscible with the first fluid, are located between the first and second support plates. A second electrode is in electrical contact with the second fluid. An electrical connector connects the first electrode to the second electrode. A barrier structure at least partly surrounds the electrical connector. The electrical connector and the barrier structure are separated from the first fluid and the second fluid by the seal. |
| US10209506B2 |
Light source optical system having tapered light guide rod
A light source optical system includes a light source, an optical system that collects light incident from the light source; and a light guide rod having a reflecting inner surface for guiding light received through an entrance port to an exit port by total internal reflection, the reflecting inner surface being gradually tapered, towards a light guide axis in the direction of the exit port, in one of an entire region defined from the entrance port to the exit port, and a region defined from a midway point between the entrance port and the exit port to the exit port. |
| US10209501B2 |
3D microscope and methods of measuring patterned substrates
A three-dimensional (3D) microscope for patterned substrate measurement can include an objective lens, a reflected illuminator, a transmitted illuminator, a focusing adjustment device, an optical sensor, and a processor. The focusing adjustment device can automatically adjust the objective lens focus at a plurality of Z steps. The optical sensor can be capable of acquiring images at each of these Z steps. The processor can control the reflected illuminator, the transmitted illuminator, the focusing adjustment device, and the optical sensor. The processor can be configured to capture first and second images at multiple Z steps, the first image with the pattern using the reflected illuminator and the second image without the pattern using one of the reflected illuminator and the transmitted illuminator. |
| US10209498B2 |
Zoom optical system, optical device and method for manufacturing the zoom optical system
A first lens group (G1) having positive refractive power, a front-side lens group (GX), an intermediate lens group (GM) having positive refractive power, and a rear-side lens group (GR) are arranged in order from an object side. The front-side lens group (GX) is composed of one or more lens groups and has a negative lens group At least part of the intermediate lens group (GM) is a focusing lens group (GF). The rear-side lens group (GR) is composed of one or more lens groups. Upon zooming, the first lens group (G1) is moved with respect to an image surface, a distance between the first lens group (G1) and the front-side lens group (GX) is changed, a distance between the front-side lens group (GX) and the intermediate lens group (GM) is changed, and a distance between the intermediate lens group (GM) and the rear-side lens group (GR) is changed. |
| US10209486B2 |
Optical lens assembly
An optical lens assembly includes first, second, third, fourth and fifth lens elements arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. Only the first lens element to the fifth lens element have refracting power, wherein the optical lens assembly satisfies: 3.1≤ALT/AAG, wherein ALT is a sum of thicknesses of the first lens element, the second lens element, the third lens element, the fourth lens element, and the fifth lens element on the optical axis, and AAG is a sum of four air gaps from the first lens element to the fifth lens element on the optical axis. |
| US10209480B2 |
Camera system in or for a motor vehicle and driver assistance system
A camera arrangement for or in a motor vehicle includes at least one objective with each objective including at least one lens. A temperature measurement device is configured to measure the temperature of the objective and/or of the environment of the objective. A temperature adjustment device is thermally coupled to the at least one objective and configured to adjust the temperature of the objective as a function of the measured temperature. |
| US10209478B2 |
Filter unit
A filter unit that is used by being detachably mounted on a lens barrel constituting an imaging device is configured so as to include a discoidal filter body, an annular filter frame that receives the filter body, an adhesion film that is formed between the filter frame and the filter body and that is formed of an elastic adhesion, and a decorative annular frame received at a portion that is inside the filter frame and that is, when mounted on the lens barrel, on the imaging object side with respect to the filter body. The filter body and the filter frame are in noncontact with each other by forming the adhesion film between the filter frame and the filter body, and by disposing the decorative annular frame, the adhesion film is hidden under the appearance of the filter unit when the filter unit is mounted on the lens barrel. |
| US10209476B2 |
Hard surface deployed fiber
A surface-mounted fiber segment includes at least one bare optical fiber glass segment disposed onto a receiving surface, and an adhesive material applied to the at least one bare optical fiber glass segment. The adhesive material substantially encapsulates the at least one bare optical fiber glass segment and adheres the at least one bare optical fiber glass segment onto the receiving surface. |
| US10209475B2 |
Modular breakout enclosure for transitioning from trunk cable to jumper cable
A module for distributing optical fibers from a trunk cable includes: an enclosure having bottom, top and side walls; a first fiber optic connector mounted on the bottom wall; a second fiber optic connector mounted on the top wall; a plurality of third connectors mounted to the side wall; a first set of optical fibers routed between the first and second optical connectors; and a second set of optical fibers routed between the first optical connector and the plurality of third connectors. |
| US10209470B2 |
Telecommunications tray with a cable routing path extending through a pivot hinge
A multi-positionable tray assembly (20) for mounting within a chassis (10) of a telecommunications panel (100) is disclosed. The multi-positionable tray assembly (20) may include support arm (24) that pivotally supports a tray (22) and that allows the tray assembly (20) to be installed and removed from the chassis (10). The tray (22) and the support arm (24) cooperatively define a cable routing pathway (208) that extends through a pivot axis (A1) defined by the tray and the support arm. To minimize the required depth of the tray (10) and optimize cable routing, the tray (20) can include a cable management structure (102) with a patch panel (104) having a plurality of adapters (108) arranged along a transverse axis (A2), wherein the transverse axis is non-parallel or oblique to a front plane (A4) of the tray. |
| US10209468B2 |
High installation performance blown optical fibre unit, manufacturing method and apparatus
An optical fiber unit for air-blown installations includes a number of optical conductors, a first layer of resin material, a second layer of resin material radially outer to the first layer of resin material and a sheath of a thermoplastic material, wherein the second layer of resin material has a secant modulus higher than a secant modulus of the first layer of resin material and wherein the sheath of thermoplastic material is over and in close contact with the second layer of resin material. |
| US10209466B2 |
Integrated circuit packages including an optical redistribution layer
Disclosed is a package comprising a substrate having a patterned surface with an optical contact area, an optical redistribution layer (oRDL) feature, and a build-up material extending over the patterned surface of the substrate and around portions of the oRDL features. In some embodiments, the package comprises a liner sheathing the oRDL features. In some embodiments, the oRDL feature extends through openings in an outer surface of the build-up material and forms posts extending outward from the outer surface. In some embodiments, the package comprises an electrical redistribution layer (eRDL) feature, at least some portion of which overlap at least some portion of the oRDL feature. In some embodiments, the package comprises an optical fiber coupled to the oRDL features. |
| US10209465B2 |
Shielded photonic integrated circuit
A light shield may be formed in photonic integrated circuit between integrated optical devices of the photonic integrated circuit. The light shield may be built by using materials already present in the photonic integrated circuit, for example the light shield may include metal walls and doped semiconductor regions. Light-emitting or light-sensitive integrated optical devices or modules of a photonic integrated circuit may be constructed with light shields integrally built in. |
| US10209461B2 |
Behind the wall optical connector with reduced components
A behind-the-wall optical connector includes a ferrule having an annular collar projecting outwardly from a section of the ferrule and a plug frame receiving the ferrule in a central bore thereof, the plug frame including one or more resiliently-biased latches for gripping the ferrule annular collar to retain the ferrule within the plug frame. The optical connector may be fabricated inexpensively due to the low number of components. An optional boot may be provided. An insertion tool for assembling the optical connector is also described. |
| US10209459B2 |
Optical fiber connector and assembly method therefor
The present invention discloses a type of optical fiber connector, comprising: an external shell; an internal shell, installed within said external shell; an inserted core component, contained within said internal shell and comprising an inserted core and a length of optical fiber pre-installed within said inserted core; and a spring, contained within said internal shell and located behind said inserted core, and being for exerting a pre-set axial force on said inserted core. Said internal shell includes a front part and a rear part; said rear part is assembled on said front part. Additionally, said spring is compressed between said rear part and said inserted core. In the present invention, the rear part can act as a retainer for the compressed spring and can also be for securing the Kevlar fiber extension tube of the optical cable. As a result, in comparison to the prior art, the present invention reduces the number of components of the optical fiber connector and simplifies the structure of the optical fiber connector, thus facilitating rapid on-site assembly of the optical fiber connector. |
| US10209458B2 |
Optical module with multiple lenses including dummy lens
An optical module for connecting a ferrule for connecting an optical fiber and a photoelectric transducer mounted on a substrate includes first lenses, second lenses, and a dummy lens. The first lenses are provided on a first side of the optical module to which the ferrule is to be connected. The second lenses and the dummy lens are provided on a second side of the optical module facing a surface of the substrate. The second lenses and the dummy lens are aligned on the same line. An image of the dummy lens is reflected from a mirror to be projected onto a plane on the first side of the optical module. |
| US10209457B2 |
Protection cap for optical connector plug
A cap main body is provided with an approximately rectangular conical occluded portion in a leading end side, an approximately rectangular tubular cover portion in an inner side of the occluded portion, and approximately rectangular tubular right and left and upper and lower side plates in a rear end side. A pair of slits are provided at upper and lower positions of the right and left side plates or right and left positions of the upper and lower side plates from an opening end of the cap main body toward an inward occluded portion so that elastic side plates are formed in a facing manner. A locking mechanism protruding out of an opening portion in a rear end of the cap main body and capable of locking to and unlocking from a spring push of the plug main body is provided in a leading end of the elastic side plates. |
| US10209454B2 |
Simplified fiber optic connectors having lenses and method for making the same
Disclosed are optical connectors having lenses along with methods for making the same. In one embodiment, the optical connector includes a fiber body having a front portion with a plurality of fiber guides, and a connector body having a plurality of connector body fiber guides that lead to a plurality of lenses at a front portion of the connector body. The fiber body attaches to the connector body and may align a plurality of optical fibers to the lenses at the front portion of the connector body. One embodiment has the fiber body configured as a crimp body with a barrel at a rear portion for attaching a fiber optic cable. |
| US10209453B1 |
Packaging of an optical fiber head with optical fiber not immersed in cooling water to enhance reliability and optical performance
A water-cooled package of an optical fiber head comprising a delivery optical fiber (DOF), a front optical end cap (OEC), a rear OEC, a glass ferrule, and a housing operates for delivering the laser light from DOF to free space. The rear OEC is fusion-spiced with a section of DOF with a cladding exposed whereas the section of DOF is enclosed in a bore of the glass ferrule. When the glass ferrule is connected and sealed between the front OEC and the rear OEC, cooling water in the water-cooled package is prevented from immersing the section of DOF to maintain reliability of DOF. It is, therefore, not needed to bond the section of DOF in a bore of the front OEC to be waterproof, minimizing varying stress-induced speckle patterns and ultimately maintaining beam quality of the laser light exiting from DOF to free space. |
| US10209450B2 |
Methods for coupling of waveguides with dissimilar mode field diameters, and related apparatuses, components, and systems
Methods for coupling of waveguides with dissimilar mode field diameters, and related apparatuses, components, and systems are disclosed. In one example, a waveguide coupling assembly includes an input waveguide having a first mode, and a transition waveguide having a first transition waveguide section, a second transition waveguide section, and a tapered section. The first transition waveguide section has a second mode and is disposed proximate to the input waveguide such that a phase matching condition is achieved between the input waveguide and the first transition waveguide section, thereby evanescently coupling the input waveguide to the first transition waveguide section of the transition waveguide. The tapered section is optically connected between the first transition waveguide section and the second transition waveguide section, such that the second mode of the first transition waveguide section is converted to the third mode of the second transition waveguide section by the tapered section. |
| US10209449B2 |
Photonics grating coupler and method of manufacture
A structure for coupling an optical signal between an integrated circuit photonic structure and an external optical fiber is disclosed as in a method of formation. The coupling structure is sloped relative to a horizontal surface of the photonic structure such that light entering or leaving the photonic structure is substantially normal to its upper surface. |
| US10209445B2 |
Method of fabricating a compact photonics platform
Compact photonics platforms and methods of forming the same are provided. An example of a compact photonics platform includes a layered structure having an active region along a longitudinal axis, a facet having an angle no less than a critical angle formed at at least one longitudinal end of the active region, and a waveguide having at least one grating coupler positioned in alignment with the angled facet to couple light out to or in from the waveguide. |
| US10209441B2 |
Fiber optic plate and method for producing the same
In an FOP 1, a glass body 8 is configured by including antimicrobial glass portions 10 made of antimicrobial glass containing Ag2O. Here, the glass containing silver does not have chemical durability, so that it has properties to easily emit Ag ions due to moisture. Ag ions have an excellent antimicrobial effect. Therefore, by configuring the glass body 8 to include the antimicrobial glass portions 10 containing Ag2O, the glass body 8 can obtain a sterilization effect due to the action of Ag ions. Therefore, the FOP 1 can be provided with antimicrobial activities. |
| US10209440B2 |
Imaging sensor with Bragg filter and method of manufacturing the same
An imaging sensor includes at least one fiber Bragg grating for filtering an image from a subject for wavelength bands, and an imaging device for converting an image transmitted through the fiber Bragg grating into a digital signal. |
| US10209439B2 |
Multi-directional optical receiver and method
Aspects and embodiments are generally directed to optical systems, receivers, and methods. In one example, an optical receiver includes a plurality of fused fiber optic bundles, at least a first fused fiber optic bundle of the plurality of fused fiber optic bundles positioned to collect optical radiation from a scene, a multi-mode fiber optic cable coupled to each fused fiber optic bundle of the plurality of fused fiber optic bundles, the multi-mode fiber optic cable configured to propagate the collected optical radiation from each of the plurality of fused fiber optic bundles along a length of the multi-mode fiber optic cable, and a photo-detector coupled to the multi-mode fiber optic cable and configured to receive the collected optical radiation. A field of view of each fused fiber optic bundle of the plurality of fused fiber optic bundles may collectively define a substantially omnidirectional field of view of the photo-detector. |
| US10209435B2 |
Backlight module and liquid crystal display
The present disclosure discloses a backlight module and a liquid crystal display, which relates to the technical field of liquid crystal display. A quantum tube bracket of the backlight module is fixed on the bracket mounting portion by means of a single point of fixation along a length direction of the quantum tube. |
| US10209431B2 |
Illumination apparatus and illumination system
An illumination apparatus including a light-emitting unit and an apparatus-holding section. The light-emitting unit includes a light guide plate with a center portion being opened, a light source that inputs light from a side of an inner wall of the light guide plate, and a reflective film formed on a side of an upper surface of the light guide plate to reflect light propagated in the light guide plate. The light-emitting unit outputs light from a light output surface in opposite to the upper surface of the light guide plate. The apparatus-holding section detachably holds an electronic apparatus, is capable of removing the electronic apparatus from a side of an output direction of light from the light output surface, and includes a center of a surface parallel to the light output surface, which is positioned inside a light output area of the light output surface. |
| US10209428B2 |
Lighting device and display device
A lighting device includes an annular light source including light sources arranged in a circular pattern, a light guide plate having a round shape in a plan view, and a case holding the annular light source and the light guide plate. The light guide plate is disposed inside the annular light source. The light guide plate includes light entering portions, circumferentially aligned portions, and a light emitting portion. The light entering portions are opposed to the light sources. Each circumferentially aligned portion is between the adjacent light entering portions. A dimension of the circumferentially aligned portion in the radial direction is larger than a dimension of the light entering portion in the radial direction. The circumferentially aligned portions are aligned with the light sources in the circumferential direction and configured to contact the light sources when the light guide plate is rotated in the circumferential direction. |
| US10209427B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device is provided, including a main body and a PCI-E insert row. The main body has a substrate, a light-emitting module and a light-guiding portion. The light-emitting module has a carrier board and a light-emitting portion disposed on the carrier board, the light-guiding portion is arranged corresponding to the light-emitting portion, and at least a part of light from the light-emitting portion is projected to outside of the electronic device through the light-guiding portion. The PCI-E insert row is disposed on the substrate, and the PCI-E insert row is for being electrically connected with the PCI-E insert slot. |
| US10209421B2 |
Polarizing plate, method of manufacturing the same, and optical apparatus
Provided are a polarizing plate having high transmittance characteristics and excellent controllability of reflectance characteristics, a method of manufacturing the polarizing plate, and an optical apparatus including the polarizing plate. A polarizing plate having a wire grid structure includes a transparent substrate and grid-shaped protrusions that are arranged on the transparent substrate at a pitch shorter than a wavelength of light in a use band and extend in a predetermined direction, the grid-shaped protrusion includes, in order from the transparent substrate side, a pedestal, a reflection layer, a dielectric layer, and an absorption layer, and the pedestal has a trapezoidal shape when viewed from the extending direction of the grid-shaped protrusions. |
| US10209416B2 |
Polarizing plate for minimizing reflecting properties in an organic light emitting device
Provided are a polarizing plate and a display. The illustrative polarizing plate may exhibit desired characteristics in a wide range of wavelengths, and have excellent reflection and visibility at an inclined angle. For example, the polarizing plate may be used in a reflective or transflective liquid crystal display or an organic light emitting device. |
| US10209415B2 |
Dielectric mirror for high-power laser pulses
A dielectric mirror is provided that, on the one hand exhibits a high destruction threshold when being irradiated with ultrashort high-power laser pulses, and on the other hand has a large bandwidth of group delay dispersion. The dielectric mirror includes a layer stack with a sequence of layers having different refractive indices, which act as a reflecting interference filter, wherein the layers are formed of at least three different materials exhibiting different destruction thresholds. |
| US10209414B2 |
Infrared-reflecting film
Infrared reflecting film includes, on a transparent film substrate, a metal oxide layer, an infrared reflecting layer mainly made of silver, and a light absorptive metal layer, in this order. No metal layer is disposed between the transparent film substrate and the infrared reflecting layer. The metal oxide layer is preferably formed of a composite metal oxide including zinc oxide and tin oxide. The light absorptive metal layer has a thickness of 2 nm to 10 nm and includes at least one selected from the group consisting of nickel, chromium, niobium, tantalum, and titanium. |
| US10209406B2 |
Transparent display device including an emitting area and a transmitting area
A transparent display device including an emitting area and a transmitting area is provided. An upper AR structure is disposed on an upper substrate. The upper AR structure includes an upper reflection-preventing layer and an upper color-compensating layer having a blue dye. As a result, the transparency of the transmitting area is increased. |
| US10209403B2 |
Method of modelling a subsurface volume
Disclosed is a method of monitoring the behavior of a subsurface volume. The method comprises transforming a single discrete parameter or an ensemble of discrete parameters describing an attribute of the subsurface volume, each discrete parameter having N possible discrete values with N≥2, into N indicator parameters each having 2 possible discrete values; for each of the two value classes of each indicator parameter, determining the anisotropic distance to a value transition interface; transforming each of the indicator parameters into a corresponding continuous parameter using the determined anisotropic distance to the value transition interface; and using the continuous parameters in a history matching process. |
| US10209401B2 |
Method for validating a training image for the multipoint geostatistical modeling of the subsoil
According to the invention, a training image denotes, for each cell of a first three-dimensional grid, a respective type of geological facies assigned to said cell. For each cell of a second three-dimensional grid, the morphology of which is matched to estimated geological horizons, the well data comprise a respective type of geological facies estimated for said cell. Two-dimensional patterns, each of which is defined along a respective geological horizon and includes, in a cell containing the intersection of a well with said geological horizon, the type of geological facies estimated for each cell, are defined. The instances of the identified two-dimensional patterns are counted in the training image so as to verify the ability of the training image to account for correlations between wells. |
| US10209399B2 |
System and method for cloud logging system
A method for implementing a wireline logging cloud computing system includes transforming the single computing device in use at well-sites to perform tool processing into a cloud configuration that can use multiple computing devices. The method includes using a logging manager user interface to communicate tool processing requests and using a logging manager service provider to create a cloud configuration for the tool processing. The method further may include implementing a post-processing manager for implementing cloud computing for post-processing tasks. |
| US10209398B2 |
Drilling fluid property determination
In some embodiments, an apparatus, system, and method may operate to determine the density of drilling fluid associated with photon activity in the drilling fluid using an array of nuclear detectors. Further activity may include determining acoustic impedance of the drilling fluid as a combination of the density and acoustic velocity. Additional apparatus and systems, as well as methods, are disclosed. |
| US10209394B2 |
Multi-tool analysis of annuluses in cased holes
A method for determining a material in an annulus between two objects disposed in a borehole includes positioning logging tools in the borehole, each of the logging tools being oriented at a different angle. The method also includes measuring a property of the material in the annulus using the logging tools and determining the material in the annulus based on the measured property. |
| US10209393B2 |
Method to correct and pulsed neutron fan based interpretation for shale effects
In some embodiments, a method and apparatus, as well as an article, may operate to estimate a property of an earth formation by generating at least one shale model to represent an earth formation comprised of a non-zero percentage of shale. The shale model includes two curves to represent a relationship between a porosity parameter and a pulsed neutron measurement at two different corresponding percentages of gas saturation, respectively. A matrix model representing an earth formation with 0% shale is combined with one or more shale models to create a formation model. Measured pulsed neutron data is compared with the formation model to estimate a property of the earth formation. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. |
| US10209390B2 |
Measuring fluid conductivity
An apparatus includes a helical flow tube in a formation testing tool. A current injector injects an electromagnetic current into the flow tube. A receiver coil is positioned to produce a receiver coil signal in response to the electromagnetic current. A processor is coupled to the receiver coil to calculate a conductivity of a fluid flowing through the flow tube based on the receiver coil signal. |
| US10209389B2 |
In-situ characterization of formation constituents
A well-logging method for a geological formation having a borehole therein may include collecting a plurality of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) snapshots from the borehole indicative of changes in the geological formation and defining NMR data. The method may further include identifying a plurality of fluids within the geological formation based upon the NMR data, determining respective NMR signatures for the identified fluids based upon the NMR data, determining apparent volumes for the identified fluids based upon the NMR signatures, and determining adjusted volumes for the identified fluids based upon the apparent volumes. |
| US10209388B2 |
Method and apparatus to generate a crosswell data set
Systems, methods, and apparatuses to generate a crosswell data set are described. In certain aspects, a method includes producing a first electromagnetic field at the earth's surface with a transmitter at a first location, detecting in a first borehole a first field signal induced by the first electromagnetic field, detecting in a second borehole a second field signal induced by the first electromagnetic field, and generating a crosswell data set from the first field signal and the second field signal. A formation model may be created from the crosswell data set. |
| US10209387B2 |
Screening device
According to one embodiment, a screening device includes a first antenna configured to transmit a first microwave to a subject to generate a second microwave and a third microwave, the second microwave being generated by a diffraction of the first microwave at the subject, the third microwave being a part of the first microwave passing the subject, and a second antenna configured to receive the second microwave in a first period and to receive the third microwave in a second period. |
| US10209385B2 |
Buried service detection
Some embodiments of the invention relate to a mobile detection device embodied as a bucket of an earth moving machine for an evaluation of a distance value and/or proximity from the bucket to an occluded AC-current carrying structure according to the magnetic field emanated from the structures AC-current. There is at least one detection coil, comprising at least one winding of an electrically conductive material, which is connected to a first amplification stage, with an amplifier circuit embodied as a current sensing amplifier, which are both are sealed within a common enclosure that is located at the bucket. An output of the amplifier circuit is configured to be linked to an electronic signal evaluation unit for detecting the occluded structure according to an electrical signal induced in the detection coil by the magnetic field. |
| US10209376B2 |
Systems for image detection
A customizable and upgradable imaging system is provided. Imaging detector columns are installed in a gantry to receive imaging information about a subject. Imaging detector columns can extend and retract radially as well as be rotated orbitally around the gantry. The gantry can be partially populated with detector columns and the detector columns can be partially populated with detector elements. |
| US10209375B2 |
X-ray data processing apparatus, X-ray data processing method, and X-ray data processing program
An X-ray data processing apparatus for processing X-ray data that is obtained by simultaneously measuring X-rays of multiple wavelengths. The apparatus includes a management unit 210 to receive and manage X-ray data that is detected by a detector, a calculation unit 230 which calculates a detection amount of charge sharing events in lower energy side data caused by higher energy X-ray, based on the higher energy side data obtained using a threshold value on a higher energy side and the lower energy side data obtained using a threshold value on a lower energy side of the received X-ray data, and a correction unit 250 to reconfigure the lower energy side data using the calculated detection amount. The apparatus can remove a residual image of an X-ray on a higher energy side which remains in data on a lower energy side. |
| US10209374B2 |
Radiation detector
A detectable range for an output signal corresponding to charge stored at a pixel is widened in a radiation detector based on an APS method. A resistor (42) is connected to a region between a pixel (12) and a signal readout circuit (21) in a signal output line (51). The resistor (42) is set so as to draw, from the signal output line (51), a current approximately equivalent to a bias current which flows to an amplifier transistor (16) when no charge is stored in a charge storage part (14). |
| US10209372B2 |
Hand-held X-ray detection system using wavelength-shifting fiber-coupled scintillation detectors
Methods for discriminating among x-ray beams of distinct energy content. A first volume of scintillation medium converts energy of incident penetrating radiation into scintillation light which is extracted from a scintillation light extraction region by a plurality of optical waveguides that convert the scintillation light to light of a longer wavelength. An x-ray beam initially incident upon the first volume of scintillation medium and traversing the first volume is then incident on a second volume of scintillation medium. The first and second scintillation media may be separated by an absorber or one or more further volumes of scintillation medium, and may also have differential spectral sensitivities. Scintillation light from the first and second scintillation volumes is detected in respective detectors and processed to yield a measure of respective low energy and high-energy components of the incident x-ray beam. |
| US10209370B2 |
Radiation imaging apparatus and radiation imaging system
An apparatus includes a controller and a power supply circuit. The controller performs first control for resetting a plurality of sensors before start of radiation irradiation, second control to accumulate charges in the plurality of sensors after the start of the radiation irradiation, and third control to output the signal read out from the plurality of sensors after the second control. |
| US10209362B2 |
Detecting, tracking, and decoding pulse repetition frequency laser energy from laser designators
A pulse repetition frequency detector, tracker, and decoder includes a two-dimensional InGaAs FPA of photodetectors configured to convert laser signals into electrical signals. A ROIC is operatively connected to the InGaAs FPA to condition electrical signals from the InGaAs FPA. A module is operatively connected to the ROIC to decode pulsed codes in the conditioned electrical signals and to provide output for tracking decoded laser spots in two-dimensional space. In another aspect, an imaging device includes an imager with an imaging FPA operatively connected to a first ROIC for imaging. A pulse repetition frequency detector, tracker, and decoder including a second ROIC as described above, is operatively connected to the first ROIC. The first and second ROICs are operatively connected to correlate the position of decoded laser spots in images from the imaging FPA. |
| US10209361B2 |
Positioning device for an optical triangulation sensor
A tool or attachment jig for mounting an optical triangulation sensor on a turbine blade in a position to measure the gap between the distal tip of the turbine blade and the adjacent shroud. The tool includes a device for indicating the orientation of the sensor. This means that the tool can match a measurement from the optical triangulation sensor with a position on the circumference of the shroud. By taking a plurality of measurements as the turbine blade is rotated with respect to the annular casing, an angular profile for the gap between the turbine blade and the casing can be obtained in a much quicker and more efficient way than a conventional system. |
| US10209360B2 |
Reduced phase sampling for high speed depth sensing
Disclosed is a technique to use only two phase captures per frequency capture to perform calculations to generate a depth frame (i.e. a total of 4 captures/depth frame). By using only two phase captures, a depth sensing system can reduce power consumption in the phase-ToF sensor, system memory bandwidth, and processor computation. |
| US10209359B2 |
Adaptive pulse rate in a lidar system
To increase the effective pulse rate of a light source in a lidar system, a controller provides control signals to the light source to transmit a light pulse once the previous light pulse has been received. The controller may communicate with a receiver in the lidar system that detects received light signals. In response to detecting a received light signal, the receiver may provide an indication of the received light signal to the controller which may in turn provide a control signal to the light source to transmit the next light pulse. The receiver may also provide characteristics of the received light signal to the controller, such as the peak power for the received light signal, the average power for the received light signal, the pulse duration of the received light signal, etc. Then the controller may analyze the characteristics to determine whether to transmit another light pulse. |
| US10209353B2 |
Bandwidth enhancement beamforming
A system and method for phased-array radar that is capable of accurate phase-only steering at any unambiguous angle is provided. In various embodiments, system and method that compensates for the varying effective element spacing of phased array radar, which occurs as a result of transmitting a wideband signal with phase shifters operating at a fixed phase, by interpolating and resampling across all elements, per frequency, to generate a desired effective spacing between the elements. |
| US10209350B2 |
Planar imaging sensor having plural photo detector groups with different detection windows
A planar imaging sensor is provided. The planar imaging sensor includes a plurality of photo detectors divided into at least a first group of photo detectors and a second group of photo detectors, the first group of photo detectors having a first detection window and the second group of photo detectors having a second detection window, wherein the second detection window is configured to start later in time than the first detection window. |
| US10209349B2 |
Method and system for ladar pulse deconfliction to detect and track other ladar systems
Disclosed herein are a number of example embodiments that employ controllable delays between successive ladar pulses in order to discriminate between “own” ladar pulse reflections and “interfering” ladar pulses reflections by a receiver. Example embodiments include designs where a sparse delay sum circuit is used at the receiver and where a funnel filter is used at the receiver. Also, disclosed are techniques for selecting codes to use for the controllable delays as well as techniques for identifying and tracking interfering ladar pulses and their corresponding delay codes. The use of a ladar system with pulse deconfliction is also disclosed as part of an optical data communication system. |
| US10209342B2 |
Electromagnetic radiation source locating system
An electromagnetic radiation source locating system including an electromagnetic radiation sensor including an antenna configured to detect a radiant energy transmission. A position detector is in communication with the controller and is configured to detect the position of the antenna relative to a reference coordinate system, while an orientation sensor is in communication with the controller and is configured to detect the orientation of the antenna and provide an orientation signal to the controller. A range sensor is configured to detect the distance to an aligned object in the path of a directional vector and provide a distance signal indicative thereof to the controller. An aerial vehicle may be in communication with the controller and configured to drop a marker for guiding navigators to the source of the radiant energy transmission. |
| US10209341B2 |
Providing transit information
Methods, systems, and computer program products for determining transit routes through crowd-sourcing, for determining an estimated time of arrival (ETA) of a vehicle of the transit route at a given location, and for providing predictive reminders to a user for catching a vehicle of the transit route. A server receives signal source information about wireless signal sources detected by user devices, including information about a first wireless signal source detected by some devices. The server determines that the first wireless signal source is moving. The server determines that the first wireless signal source is associated with a public transit route upon determining that the signal source information satisfies one or more selection criteria. The server stores information associating the first wireless signal source with the public transit route as transit movement data corresponding to the public transit route. |
| US10209334B2 |
System and method for controlling partial volume effects in magnetic resonance fingerprinting
Systems and methods for estimating quantitative parameters of a subject from data acquired using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. The system includes a computer system configured to control the MRI system to acquire MR fingerprinting (MRF) data representing a plurality of different signal evolutions acquired using different acquisition parameter settings and reconstruct the MRF data into at least one image composed of a plurality of pixels or voxels formed of multiple compartments per pixel or voxel. The computer system is further configured to, on a compartment-by-compartment basis, compare a signal associated with each compartment to an initial dictionary comprising a plurality of signal templates that coarsely sample different acquisition parameters used to acquire the MRF data to determine quantitative parameters for each compartment. The computer system is further configured to generate a quantitative parameter map that indicates the quantitative parameters for each compartment. |
| US10209333B2 |
Magnetic resonance imaging method using T2* mapping based on echo planar imaging
A flipped fitting method that performs a flipped curve fitting on a maximum of 256 MRI images obtained at different echo times using an EPI image which obtains a plurality of MRI images at a plurality of different echo times within a TR period after application of an excitation RF pulse. Then, T2* values are fitted based on a sufficient amount of acquired TE images, such that it is possible to provide much more accurate T2* values than these provided by underestimated or overestimated fitting by the existing method which is based on only 12 images and to obtain rapid and accurate data without nerve stimulation or acoustic noise. Further, the flipped fitting method is more suitable and accurate for showing the real T2* values. |
| US10209332B2 |
In-flow signal reduction for T1 weighted imaging in a magnetic resonance imaging system
An magnetic resonance apparatus 100 comprises dummy-slice defining unit 93. The dummy-slice defining unit 93 defines a dummy slice a in a region lying in a z-direction with respect to a group gr1, and a dummy slice b in a region lying in a (−z)-direction with respect to the group gr1. The dummy-slice defining unit 93 also defines a dummy slice c in a region lying in the z-direction with respect to a group gr2, and a dummy slice d in a region lying in the (−z)-direction with respect to the group gr2. The dummy-slice defining unit 93 further defines the dummy slices a, b, c, d so that the slice thickness of the dummy slices a, b, c, d is greater than that of slices L1 to L12. |
| US10209331B2 |
Magnetic resonance imaging method with asymmetric radial acquisition of K-space data
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) method is provided in which a sample is subjected to a gradient echo imaging sequence having a plurality of basic sequence elements each of which includes a radiofrequency (RF) pulse, at least one frequency encoding gradient moment kx for generating a magnetic resonance (MR) signal, at least one first phase encoding gradient moment ky for phase encoding the MR signal and a data acquisition period during which k-space data reflecting the MR signal are acquired. The frequency encoding gradient moment kx and the first phase encoding gradient moment ky are applied such during the data acquisition period of each basic sequence element, that the k-space data are acquired in a radial direction and asymmetrically with respect to the center of k-space in the direction from the periphery towards the center of k-space. |
| US10209330B2 |
System and method of performing magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging
A method of performing spatially localized magnetic resonance spectroscopy includes receiving a magnetic resonance image of an object; identifying a plurality C of compartments that generate magnetic resonance spectroscopy signals in the object including at least one compartment of interest; segmenting in at least one spatial dimension the magnetic resonance image of the object into the C compartments; acquiring magnetic resonance spectroscopy signals from the compartments by applying a plurality of M′ phase encodings applied in the at least one spatial dimension, wherein M′≥C; calculating a spatially localized magnetic resonance chemical shift spectrum from the at least one compartment of interest; and rendering a spatially localized magnetic resonance spectrum that is substantially equal to a spatial average of magnetic resonance chemical shift spectra from the at least one compartment of interest. A magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging system is configured to perform the above method. |
| US10209326B2 |
MR coil
An MR coil is provided including at least one antenna element. The antenna element has at least one expandable conductor section with a plastic cover and a core including conductive fluid. |
| US10209322B2 |
Method for testing local magnetomechanical coupling coefficient of a magnetic material
A method for testing a local magnetomechanical coupling coefficient of a magnetic material includes defining a square of a local magnetomechanical coupling coefficient kIT as a the ratio of a magnetic energy stored in a magnetic material to an input reversible mechanical work, and characterizing the local magnetomechanical coupling coefficient of the magnetic material by measuring nano-indentation load-depth curves of the magnetic material under both situations of a saturated magnetic field and an unsaturated magnetic field. The method is simple in operation and has the advantages in local performance test of composite materials and other heterogeneous materials and also in small-scale performance test of nano-films. |
| US10209320B2 |
Method for estimating SOC-OCV profile by degradation of secondary battery
A method for estimating an SOC-OCV profile by degradation of a secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes individually obtaining an SOC-OCV profile (a first profile) of a cathode of the secondary battery and an SOC-OCV profile (a second profile) of an anode of the secondary battery using a half cell; obtaining a new SOC-OCV profile (a third profile) of the cathode by reflecting a level of degradation (a %) by use of the secondary battery to modify the SOC-OCV profile of the cathode, but setting only an SOC range to be narrow in proportion to the level of degradation while maintaining an OCV range of the cathode as it is; obtaining a new SOC-OCV profile (a fourth profile) of the anode by migrating the SOC-OCV profile of the anode in a horizontal direction taking into account the level of degradation by use of the secondary battery; and obtaining a new SOC-OCV profile (a fifth profile) by determining a subtraction of an OCV value by the SOC-OCV profile of the anode from an OCV value by the SOC-OCV profile of the cathode as an OCV value of the secondary battery. |
| US10209318B2 |
Asymmetric battery testing apparatus
An asymmetric battery testing apparatus tests a battery unit. The battery testing apparatus includes a first wire, a second wire, a third wire, and a testing circuit. The testing circuit includes a test-enabling unit and a control unit. Each wire has a resistance. The test-enabling unit includes a resistor to obtain a first resistor voltage value and a second resistor voltage value. The control unit obtains a battery internal resistance or a battery internal conductance which is a reciprocal of the battery internal resistance of the battery unit according to a battery internal voltage value, a wire voltage value, a first testing voltage value, a second testing voltage value, a testing resistance, the first resistor voltage value, the second resistor voltage value, and the resistances. Accordingly, shorter test time, lower contact failure, higher accuracy, lower power consumption, lower costs, and smaller size are implemented. |
| US10209314B2 |
Systems and methods for estimation and prediction of battery health and performance
Systems and computer-implemented methods are used for analyzing battery information. The battery information may be acquired from both passive data acquisition and active data acquisition. Active data may be used for feature extraction and parameter identification responsive to the input data relative to an electrical equivalent circuit model to develop geometric-based parameters and optimization-based parameters. These parameters can be combined with a decision fusion algorithm to develop internal battery parameters. Analysis processes including particle filter analysis, neural network analysis, and auto regressive moving average analysis can be used to analyze the internal battery parameters and develop battery health metrics. Additional decision fusion algorithms can be used to combine the internal battery parameters and the battery health metrics to develop state-of-health estimations, state-of-charge estimations, remaining-useful-life predictions, and end-of-life predictions for the battery. |
| US10209312B2 |
Apparatus and methods for evaluating CEW energy cell performance
A method and apparatus for evaluating CEW performance, in particular by evaluating a battery pack condition state via direct or indirect means. A two-tier load test for a CEW battery pack and an indirect wireless spark analysis tool are disclosed. |
| US10209303B2 |
Signal processing apparatus
A signal processing apparatus includes a recording unit, an operation unit, a processing unit and an abnormality detector. The recording unit records configuration data therein. The operation unit performs arithmetic and logical operations on an input signal and outputs an operation signal indicative of the result of the operations. The operation unit has a circuit configuration defined by the configuration data recorded in the recording unit. The processing unit acquires the operation signal outputted from the operation unit, produces an output signal based on the acquired operation signal and outputs the produced output signal. The abnormality detector detects an abnormality of the circuit configuration of the operation unit. Moreover, in the signal processing apparatus, the processing unit is configured to further acquire an abnormality detection result from the abnormality detector after the acquisition of the operation signal and output the output signal depending on the abnormality detection result. |
| US10209299B2 |
Test apparatus and testable asynchronous circuit
Disclosed are a test apparatus and a testable asynchronous circuit. The test apparatus includes: a first input end, a second input end, a third input end, a fourth input end, a fifth input end, a first selector, a second selector, a D flip-flop, and a first output end. The first input end is configured to input a data signal or a test result of a previous circuit under test; the second input end is configured to input a test excitation signal or a test result that is output by a previous test apparatus; the third input end is configured to input a clock signal; the fourth input end is configured to input a selection signal; and the fifth input end is configured to input a selection signal. |
| US10209295B2 |
Non-contact probe signal loading device
A non-contact probe signal loading device is disclosed. The non-contact probe signal loading device includes a probe metal sheet electrically connected to a signal loading terminal, a lower surface of the probe metal sheet facing towards a signal inputting metal sheet into which a signal is to be loaded. A signal transmitting capacitor is formed between the probe metal sheet and the signal inputting metal sheet, and the signal transmitting capacitor functions as a medium to transmit a loaded signal to the signal inputting metal sheet from the probe metal sheet. |
| US10209292B2 |
Partial discharge determination method, partial discharge determination apparatus, and partial discharge determination system for power device, and method for manufacturing power device including the partial discharge determination method
A partial discharge determination method and apparatus, and a partial discharge determination system capable of indicating how much margin is left before dielectric breakdown, in a lighting impulse withstand voltage test, and a power device for which whether partial discharge is caused is determined by them, and a method for manufacturing a power device including the partial discharge determination method. A low-pass filter receives an acoustic signal resulting from application of an impulse voltage and acquired by an acoustic emission sensor, and removes an electromagnetic noise superimposed on the acoustic signal. A mechanical oscillation removal unit removes a mechanical oscillation component of a device under test, from the acoustic signal resulting from application of the impulse voltage which is a high voltage, based on the mechanical oscillation component acquired in advance and included in the acoustic signal resulting from application of the impulse voltage which is a low voltage. |
| US10209291B2 |
System and method for condition monitoring of electricity transmission structures
System and method for monitoring the condition of electricity conductor support systems, i.e. towers, in a power network distribution system employing a tower structure integrity sensor assemblage. The system allows for identifying particular portions of a structural system for maintenance attention. The tower sensors allow identification of structural failures of electricity transmission towers. |
| US10209285B2 |
Electrometer
An electrometer includes a sensing module and a control module. The sensing module includes an electrostatic sensing element. The electrostatic sensing element includes two opposite ends. Each end of the electrostatic sensing element is electrically connected to the control module. When an object with electrostatic charge is near but does not touch the electrostatic sensing element, the resistance of the electrostatic sensing element can be changed. The control module electrically connect to the electrostatic sensing element, the control module measures the resistance variation ΔR of the electrostatic sensing element and converts the resistance variation ΔR into the static electricity potential. |
| US10209275B2 |
Detachable probe card interface
A detachable probe card interface comprises a space transformer, a deformable connector, and a carrier board. The space transformer includes first electrical contacts and second electrical contacts, wherein the first electrical contacts are coupled to the second electrical contacts through one or more layers of the space transformer. The deformable connector includes a plurality of conductive particles arranged in columns coinciding with the second electrical contacts, wherein the conductive particles compress with one another when one or more forces are exerted on the deformable connector. The carrier board includes a plurality of vias aligned with the plurality of second electrical contacts on the space transformer, and a plurality of conductors disposed within the vias. Each of the conductors is coupled to a respective one of the second electrical contacts and protrudes into the deformable connector to establish a transmission path between the second electrical contact and one or more columns of the conductive particles. |
| US10209274B2 |
Laser-assisted device alteration using synchronized laser pulses
A pulsed-laser LADA system is provided, which utilizes temporal resolution to enhance spatial resolution. The system is capable of resolving CMOS pairs within the illumination spot using synchronization of laser pulses with the DUT clock. The system can be implemented using laser wavelength having photon energy above the silicon bandgap so as to perform single-photon LADA or wavelength having photon energy below the silicon bandgap so as to generate two-photon LADA. The timing of the laser pulses can be adjusted using two feedback loops tied to the clock signal of an ATE, or by adjusting the ATE's clock signal with reference to a fixed-pulse laser source. |
| US10209273B2 |
Probe position inspection apparatus, semiconductor device inspection apparatus and semiconductor device inspection method
A probe position inspection apparatus capable of inspecting the position of contact portions of respective probe tips easily and accurately, an apparatus for inspecting a semiconductor device, and a method of inspecting a semiconductor device are provided. The probe position inspection apparatus includes a transparent plate, a camera for taking an image of one surface of the transparent plate, and a pressure passive member covering the other surface of the transparent plate. The tip of a probe for use in evaluation of a semiconductor device is pressed against the other surface of the transparent plate, with the pressure passive member therebetween. The probe position inspection apparatus further includes an image processor for processing the image taken by the camera to detect the position of the probe in the plane of the transparent plate. |
| US10209271B2 |
Handheld measurement system with selectable options
In at least one embodiment, a handheld measurement system generates a measurement image derived from measurement data that is generated and/or received by the handheld measurement system. The handheld measurement system also generates a plurality of option images that each correspond to a particular selectable option. A display screen, which may be a touch screen, simultaneously displays the measurement image and the option images. The measurement device modifies the measurement image and/or the option images in response to received option image selections. |
| US10209270B2 |
Inertial sensors
An inertial sensor includes a substantially planar, rotationally symmetric proof mass, a capacitive pick-off circuit connected to the proof mass, an electrical drive circuit connected to the four pairs of electrodes. The drive circuit is arranged to apply first in-phase and anti-phase pulse width modulation (PWM) drive signals with a first frequency to the first and third electrode pairs, such that one electrode in each pair is provided with in-phase PWM drive signals and the other electrode in each pair is provided with anti-phase PWM drive signals and to apply second in-phase and anti-phase PWM drive signals with a second frequency, different to the first frequency, to the second and fourth electrode pairs, such that one electrode in each pair is provided with in-phase PWM drive signals and the other electrode in each pair is provided with anti-phase PWM drive signals. |
| US10209265B2 |
Chain of custody forms and methods
A chain-of-custody form has integrated removable specimen seals, and the form may be used to identify a test sample collected from a donor and to document the handling of the test sample. The form may be printed upon a single sheet that has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes a first section having one or more spaces for recording demographic and testing information, and one or more indicia of the information to be recorded in one or more marked spaces; and a second section having a marked space for the donor to affix a signature and one or more indicia of the purpose of the space. An identifier that is unique to the form is recorded within the first portion and within the second portion. The identifier includes an specimen identification number or some other method of specimen identification such as a bar-code. |
| US10209260B2 |
Signatures and determinants for diagnosing infections and methods of use thereof
Antibiotics (Abx) are the worlds most misused drugs. Antibiotics misuse occurs when the drug is administered in case of a non-bacterial infection (such as a viral infection) for which it is ineffective. Overall, it is estimated that 40-70% of the worldwide Abx courses are mis-prescribed. The financial and health consequences of Abx over-prescription include the direct cost of the drugs, as well as the indirect costs of their side effects, which are estimated at >$15 billion annually. Furthermore, over-prescription directly causes the emergence of Abx-resistant strains of bacteria, which are recognized as one of the major threats to public health today. This generates an immediate need for reliable diagnostics to assist physicians in correct Abx prescription, especially at the point-of-care (POC) where most Abx are prescribed. Accordingly, some aspects of the present invention provide methods using biomarkers for rapidly detecting the source of infection and administrating the appropriate treatment. |
| US10209258B2 |
Lipoprotein nanoplatelets: fluorescent, zwitterionic probes for molecular and cellular imaging
Compositions are provided comprising water-stable semi-conductor nanoplatelets encapsulated in a hydrophilic coating further comprising lipids and lipoproteins. Uses include biomolecular imaging and sensing, and methods of making comprise: colloidal synthesis of CdSe core NPLs; layer-by-layer growth of a CdS shell; and encapsulation of CdSe/CdScore/shell NPLs in lipid and lipoprotein components through an evaporation-encapsulation using zwitterionic phospholipids, detergents, and amphipathic membrane scaffold proteins. |
| US10209257B2 |
Solid support comprising HIV-1 clade C envelope peptides for the detection of HIV-1-specific antibodies
The present invention relates to a method for detecting and/or quantifying human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) specific antibodies in a sample of a subject comprising the step of determining the presence and/or amount of antibodies binding to a) a peptide consisting of the amino acid sequence AIVCTRPNNNTRKSIRIGPGQVFYT (SEQ ID No. 1), or b) a homolog having at least 70% identity with a peptide of a), or c) a fragment of a peptide of a) or b) consisting of 15 to 24 amino acid residues in said sample. |
| US10209255B2 |
Method for identifying a bacterial infection
Method for identifying a bacterial infection The present application concerns a method for identifying the nature of a bacterial infection from a peritoneal sample, in particular, whether it is a Gram-negative or Gram-positive infection, based upon the determination of one or more cellular and/or humoral markers in a sample. |
| US10209254B2 |
Chips, detection systems, and methods for multiplex pneumococcus serology
According to aspects illustrated herein, there are provided a sensor chip suitable for serological detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae, a method for detecting serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae using the sensor chip, a detection system that includes the sensor chip, and a method for detecting serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae using the detection system described herein. |
| US10209246B2 |
Method for performing quantitation assays
The present invention relates to a method for determining an estimate of a concentration of analyte particles E(C) as well as an apparatus for use in the inventive method, uses of the inventive method or the inventive apparatus, a sample holder and a kit for use in the inventive method. |
| US10209240B2 |
Predicting human developmental toxicity of pharmaceuticals using human stem-like cells and metabolomic ratios
This present invention provides rapid, reproducible, biomarker-based screening methods for the developmental toxicity testing of compounds. The methods are designed to identify the exposure level at which a test compound perturbs metabolism in a manner predictive of developmental toxicity. In particular, the perturbation of two metabolites, ornithine and cystine, is measured, wherein a ratio of the fold change in ornithine to the fold change in cystine of less than or equal to about 0.88 is indicative of the teratogenicity of a test compound. |
| US10209239B1 |
Method of making an aromagraph comprising ectopic olfactory receptors
Biosensors are disclosed for detecting ligand binding at ectopic Olfactory Receptors. Methods of identifying novel ectopic Olfactory Receptors are also disclosed. Ligands for ectopic Olfactory Receptors are disclosed as well as methods for using these ligands to interact with ectopic Olfactory Receptors, including the use of such ligands in the treatment and/or mitigation of disease conditions. |
| US10209236B2 |
Cell analyzer system, cell analyzer program, and cell analyzing method
A cell analyzer system according to the present technology includes an image acquisition unit, a vibration information extraction unit, and a vibration characteristics calculation unit. The image acquisition unit acquires a cell image by capturing cells at elapsed time. The vibration information extraction unit extracts vibration information attributable to spontaneous membrane potential vibration of cells from the cell image. The vibration characteristics calculation unit calculates vibration characteristics of the vibration information from the vibration information. |
| US10209225B2 |
Sound propagation comparison with automated frequency selection for pipe condition assessment
Examples of collecting and analyzing acoustic data for condition assessment within a fluid distribution system are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a method for collecting and analyzing acoustic data for condition assessment within a fluid distribution system includes: receiving pipe segment criteria for a pipe segment, the pipe segment including a length of a pipe between a first computing node and a second computing node; determining a prediction of frequency content based on the pipe segment criteria; measuring an actual speed of sound for the pipe segment between the first computing node and the second computing node; and comparing the actual speed of sound and a theoretical speed of sound to calculate a predicted pipe degradation for the pipe segment. |
| US10209224B2 |
Probe and object information acquisition apparatus using the same
A probe is provided in which penetration of an acoustic medium into a support layer of an optical reflection member through a pinhole or a scratch on an optical reflection layer is suppressed, occurrence of a solvent crack is suppressed, and noise due to photoacoustic waves that occurs on a receiving surface can be suppressed. The probe includes an element having at least one cell in which a vibration film containing one electrode out of two electrodes that are provided so as to interpose a space therebetween is vibratably supported. The probe further includes a support layer disposed on the vibration film, and an optical reflection layer disposed on the support layer. A protection layer against an acoustic medium is formed on the optical reflection layer. |
| US10209223B2 |
Real-time fusion of ultrasound and eddy current data during non-destructive examination
Apparatus and methods for real-time fusion of data acquired using ultrasonic and eddy current area sensors during nondestructive examination. The ultrasonic data is acquired using an array of ultrasonic transducer elements configured to enable the production and display of a C-scan of a small area. The ultrasonic transducer array may be one- or two-dimensional. The eddy current sensor can be a single pair of induction coils, a multiplicity of coil pairs, or a coil configuration in which the numbers of drive coils and sense coils are not equal. The eddy current sensor is able to provide data about the test material, such as material thickness or conductivity, to complement the ultrasonic data or enable auto-setup of the ultrasonic inspection device. |
| US10209221B2 |
Testing of drill pipe inspection equipment
An equipment testing apparatus may include one or more test connections. The equipment testing apparatus may also include a power cable and/or power supply in electrical communication with the one or more test connections. The power cable and/or power supply may be configured to provide electrical energy to the one or more test connections to verify the performance of various components of the equipment to be tested. In particular, an equipment testing apparatus may be configured to verify the performance of various components of drill pipe inspection equipment. Components of drill pipe inspection equipment that are tested may include a drive motor, an electromagnetic coil, and a signal cable. |
| US10209216B2 |
Electrospray ionization source and LC-MS interface
The present invention provides an electrospray ionization source, which includes: a capillary, including a spray tip; a first electrode which provides the spray tip with a spray voltage; and a second electrode. The electrical potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode forms a separation electric field, which allows the electric field separation and electrospray ionization of the sample to be accomplished simultaneously, thereby improving the sensitivity of detection. |
| US10209212B2 |
Sensor arrangement for particle analysis and a method for particle analysis
According to various embodiments, a sensor arrangement for particle analysis may include: a base electrode configured to generate an electrical field for particle attraction; a support layer disposed over the base electrode; a sensor array disposed over the support layer and including or formed from a plurality of sensor elements, wherein each sensor element of the plurality of sensor elements is configured to generate or modify an electrical signal in response to a particle at least one of adsorbed to and approaching the sensor element; and an electrical contact structure may include or be formed from a plurality of contact lines, wherein each contact line of the plurality of contact lines is electrically connected to a respective sensor element of the plurality of sensor elements, such that each sensor element of the plurality of sensor elements is addressable via the contact structure. |
| US10209211B2 |
Method for determining whether reconstitution of a solution in a container is completed
A method for determining whether reconstitution of a solution in a container is completed comprises the steps of: selecting a predetermined amount of a solid substance and a predetermined amount of a liquid solvent from which the reconstituted solution is to be prepared, preparing a solution by solving the predetermined amount of the solid substance in the predetermined amount of the liquid solvent, measuring the impedance (Z) or the resistance (R) of the solution, determining whether the change of the measured impedance (Z) or the resistance (R) within a measuring time interval of a predetermined duration is below a defined threshold, and determining that reconstitution of the solution is completed when the change of the measured impedance (Z) is below the defined threshold. |
| US10209210B2 |
Measuring device using electrical conductivity and having function of informing electrode contamination
The present invention relates to a measuring device using an electrical conductivity and having a function of informing electrode contamination. The measuring device includes a main body on which a display part is disposed on a surface thereof, and a control module controlling an operation of the measuring device is mounted therein, and a sensor unit disposed on one side of the main body and dipped into the object to measure electrical characteristics of the object to be measured. The sensor unit is driven by the control of the control module, and at least includes a first sensor electrode and a second sensor electrode for measuring electrical characteristics of the object to be measured. The sensor unit further includes a reference electrode disposed between the first and second electrodes at the same distance from each other. |
| US10209208B2 |
Stable nanocrystalline ordering alloy systems and methods of identifying same
Provided in one embodiment is a method of identifying a stable phase of an ordering binary alloy system comprising a solute element and a solvent element, the method comprising: determining at least three thermodynamic parameters associated with grain boundary segregation, phase separation, and intermetallic compound formation of the ordering binary alloy system; and identifying the stable phase of the ordering binary alloy system based on the first thermodynamic parameter, the second thermodynamic parameter and the third thermodynamic parameter by comparing the first thermodynamic parameter, the second thermodynamic parameter and the third thermodynamic parameter with a predetermined set of respective thermodynamic parameters to identify the stable phase; wherein the stable phase is one of a stable nanocrystalline phase, a metastable nanocrystalline phase, and a non-nanocrystalline phase. |
| US10209204B2 |
X-ray inspection system and method for rotating a test object by means of such an X-ray inspection system
An X-ray inspection system includes an X-ray source and a detector. A rotary table is arranged between the X-ray source and the detector. The rotary table is configured to secure a test object on the rotary table. The rotary table is arranged on a positioning table. The positioning table is configured to move parallel to an xy-plane between the X-ray source and the detector. The xy-plane is perpendicular to a surface of the detector extending parallel to the xz-plane and the rotary table is configured to rotate about a z-axis. |
| US10209198B2 |
Particle sensing device and air conditioner including the same
A particle sensing device and an air conditioner including a sensor has a sensing path through which air passes, a flow path housing which accommodates the sensor and guides air, and a flow path switching device to all air suctioned from the outside is guided to the sensing path, or some of the air suctioned from the outside and moving flows back in an obliquely upward direction and flows into the sensing path. |
| US10209196B2 |
LIBS analysis system and method for liquids
A LIBS analysis system and method for liquids wherein a handheld LIBS analyzer has a nose section through which a laser beam passes. A sample holder positioner is attached to the nose section of the hand held LIBS analyzer. A sample holder is receivable in the sample holder positioner and includes a container for a liquid and an opening for filling the container with the liquid. |
| US10209193B2 |
Nanomaterial-based substrates for chemical sensors using surface enhanced raman spectroscopy
A method and apparatus for estimating a concentration of chemicals in a fluid flowing in a fluid passage is disclosed. A sample of the fluid is placed on a substrate comprising a first layer of carbon nanotubes and a second layer of metal nanowires. An energy source radiates the fluid sample with electromagnetic radiation at a selected energy level, and a detector measures an energy level of radiation emitted from the fluid sample in response to the electromagnetic radiation. A processor determines a Raman spectrum of the fluid sample from the energy level of the emitted radiation and estimates the concentration of a selected chemical in the fluid sample based on the Raman spectrum. |
| US10209192B2 |
Spectroscopy with correlation matrices, ratios and glycation
A system and method for detecting glycation levels within hemoglobin generates a first correlation matrix using a first light beam at a first wavelength passing through a hemoglobin sample. A second correlation matrix is generated using a second light beam at a second wavelength passing through the hemoglobin sample. The first correlation matrix is multiplied by an inverse of the second correlation matrix to obtain a third matrix. A fourth matrix is generated by taking a singular value decomposition of the third matrix. The fourth matrix comprises a unique biomarker for a level of glycation within the hemoglobin sample. The level of glycation within the hemoglobin sample is determined responsive to the fourth matrix and an indicator identifying the determined level of glycation is output. |
| US10209191B2 |
Method for in-line quantitative analysis of a stream in a production plant for the synthesis of urea
The invention discloses the use of Raman spectroscopy to analyze one or more process streams (5) of a urea synthesis production plant, where urea is synthesised from ammonia and carbon dioxide at high pressure (100-300 bar) and high temperature (50-250° C.). The radiation generated by the Raman scattering is analyzed to determine the concentration of components such as urea, ammonia and carbon dioxide in the process streams (5). A logic system implemented in a plant control unit (1) generates signals to target plant actuators to optimize the operation. |
| US10209187B1 |
Method for atomic and molecular sensing
A robust and rugged method for sensing atoms and molecule using a small hybrid Hollow-Core Photonic Bandgap Fiber (HCPBF) is described. The hybrid fiber and associated chamber apparatus is amenable to mass production and can be used for wavelengths of light from 400 nm to 2000 nm. |
| US10209181B2 |
Plant matter sensor to determine health and/or nutritional content based on reflected signals at vertically displaced points on the plant matter
A plant matter sensor comprising: one or more emitters configured to emit two or more vertically spaced signals toward a plant; and one or more receivers configured to receive two or more reflected signals from the plant. |
| US10209174B2 |
Flow cytometer
The disclosed flow cytometer includes a wavelength division multiplexer (WDM). The WDM includes an extended light source providing light that forms an object, a collimating optical element that captures light from the extended light source and projects a magnified image of the object as a first light beam, and a first focusing optical element configured to focus the first light beam to a size smaller than the object of the extended light source to a first semiconductor detector. The disclosed flow cytometer further includes a composite microscope objective to direct light emitted by a particle in a flow channel in a viewing zone of the composite microscope to the extended light source, a fluidic system and a peristaltic pump configured to supply liquid sheath and liquid sample to the flow channel, and a laser diode system to illuminate the particle in the flow channel. |
| US10209172B2 |
Viscosity measurement device
The present invention relates to a viscosity measurement device. According to one aspect of the present invention, provided is a viscosity measurement device comprising: a housing which has an inlet port, an outlet port and a measurement space positioned between the inlet port and the outlet port; a magnetic body arranged in the measurement space; an electromagnet for moving the magnetic body; a position measurement part for measuring the position of the magnetic body; a flow rate measurement part for measuring the flow rate of fluid which flows in the measurement space; and a control part for measuring the viscosity of the fluid on the basis of the strength of a magnetic field generated by the electromagnet and the shear strain rate of the fluid which passes through the measurement space. |
| US10209169B2 |
Method and apparatus for automatically testing high pressure and high temperature sedimentation of slurries
A method and apparatus for automatically testing high pressure and high temperature sedimentation of slurries is described. The method includes pumping a sample drilling fluid into a test cell. The sample drilling fluid may be subjected to a pre-determined pressure and a pre-determined temperature for a pre-determined period of time. The test cell may also be oriented at non-vertical angle. The sample drilling fluid may be pumped out of the test cell and the density of the sample drilling fluid automatically measured relative to a displaced fluid volume of the sample drilling fluid. |
| US10209167B2 |
Sample preparation method for analysis of platelet proteins
The present invention provides a novel method of in vitro sample preparation for the analysis of proteins. In a first aspect, the present invention is a method comprising the separation and individual treatment of blood platelets and platelet-poor plasma obtained from a platelet-rich plasma sample. This allows for optimal treatment of both fractions and overcomes many of the problems associated with current methods. In a second aspect of the present invention the platelet sample preparation method can be implemented before a biochip based immunoassay for the detection of platelet proteins in combination with plasma proteins. |
| US10209166B2 |
System and method for processing biological specimens
A system for processing biological specimens mounted on microscope slides by adding and removing processing fluids from microscope slides by means of capillary action using a slide holder capable of holding multiple microscope slides, and a spacer positioned in between two slides of a slide pair to create a capillary gap. A capillary gap adjuster can be used to pinch and release one end of the slide pair to create a pulsatile action to mix the reagent within the capillary gap. The system may further include a reagent holder, an absorbent pad, a series of reagent baths, and an incubator for holding one or more slide holders. |
| US10209165B2 |
Assessment of staining quality
The quality of staining histological specimens has an impact on the histological assessment of the specimen. One of the causes for variability in the accuracy is the variations in the staining of the specimens to be tested in the working laboratories. The present invention provides a method for assessing the staining quality in a working laboratory and providing a quantitative quality measure for the staining quality. Thereby, it is possible for each working laboratory to evaluate their staining quality and to get feedback of how to improve the quality. The invention further relates to a system and a software program for carrying out the method. |
| US10209163B2 |
Systems and methods for removing contaminates from a stream prior to passing the stream through an analyzer
A separator comprising: a first and second chamber, wherein the chambers are generally vertically disposed and parallel to each other; and the chambers have an upper end and a lower end; and the separator comprises an upper body and a lower body, wherein the upper ends are disposed in communication with the upper body, and the lower ends are disposed in communication with the lower body.Further disclosed is a single-chamber separator including a cooler. The cooler surrounds a portion of the chamber, and includes a coolant inlet disposed on a bottom surface, and a coolant outlet disposed on a top surface, and further includes baffles for directing coolant flow in a back and forth manner inside of the cooler.Also disclosed is a dual-chamber separator including a plurality of filters. The filters are disposed in the chambers in surrounding relationship to the tubes. |
| US10209158B2 |
Apparatus and method for detecting leakage in hydrogen tank of hydrogen fuel cell vehicle
An apparatus and a method for detecting leakage in a hydrogen tank of a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle are provided. Particularly, leakage is detected due to failure of an airtight seal of a solenoid valve in a hydrogen tank based on a change of the sensing value of a high pressure sensor which represents a hydrogen tank pressure during a process of performing a wakeup operation at the time of key-off of a vehicle. |
| US10209157B2 |
Dual-sealed MEMS package with cavity pressure monitoring
A microelectromechanical sensor (MEMS) package includes a gyroscope and an accelerometer. The gyroscope is located within a low-pressure cavity that is sealed from an external pressure. The accelerometer is located within a cavity, and the seal for the accelerometer cavity is entirely within the gyroscope cavity. Under normal operating conditions, the accelerometer seal holds the accelerometer cavity at a higher pressure than the pressure of the enclosing gyroscope cavity. In the event that one of the gyroscope seal or the accelerometer seal is broken, the gyroscope senses the change in pressure. |
| US10209156B2 |
Micromachined pressure sensor and method of making the same
The design and manufacture method of a pressure sensor utilizing thermal field sensing with a thermal isolated membrane of a diaphragm structure is disclosed in the present invention. This device is made with silicon micromachining (a.k.a. MEMS, Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) process for applications of pressure measurement with large dynamic range, high accuracy and high stability during temperature variation. This device is applicable for all types of pressure metrology. The said thermal field pressure sensing device operates with thermistors on a membrane of the diaphragm structure made of silicon nitride with a heat isolation cavity underneath or a single side thermal isolated silicon nitride membrane with a reference cavity. This device can be seamlessly integrated with a thermal flow sensor with the same process. |
| US10209148B2 |
Force-sensitive fingerprint sensing input
An object can depress an input device, such as, for example, a function button in an electronic device. A resistive element having a mechanically resistive force can be disposed to resist the depression or movement of the input device. One or more electrodes can be disposed to provide a measure of capacitance based on the depression of the input device. A shield can be disposed to reduce the parasitic capacitance between the one or more electrodes and the object. The electronic device can include a fingerprint sensor operably connected to at least one of the one or more electrodes. |
| US10209146B1 |
Apparatus and process for determining a convective heat transfer coefficient between a moving fluid and a bounding surface
An apparatus and a process for experimentally determining a heat transfer coefficient of a surface which includes a duct having an outer passage for water flow and an inner passage for air flow, the two passages separated by a thin wall membrane such that the water flow establishes a datum temperature on the thin wall membrane, and where air flowing through the second passage and over the thin wall membrane surface which can include heat transfer enhancements features will be heated by the features, and where the heat transfer coefficient can be determined from the surface temperature of the thin wall membrane and the change in temperature of the air flow. The duct with the thin wall membrane and heat transfer enhancement features is produced using a plastic or metallic additive manufacture process for low cost and quit turnaround time. |
| US10209145B2 |
Failure diagnosis method and system of temperature sensor of switch device
A failure diagnosis method of a temperature sensor of a switch device is provided. The method includes setting a sampling period using a temperature detected by the temperature sensor of the switch device and a temperature of cooling water for cooling the switch device. A temperature sensing value detected by the temperature sensor is then compared with a temperature reference value stored in a memory in the sampling period to determine whether failure occurs in the temperature sensor. |
| US10209143B2 |
Thermo wire testing circuit
A thermo wire testing circuit, comprising: a current source terminal for supplying a test current to a first thermo wire via a first terminal during a test mode; a current drain terminal for receiving the test current from a second thermo wire via a second terminal during the test mode; a reference resistor for generating a reference voltage, which reference resistor is arranged in the current circuit of the test current; and a processing unit coupleable to the first and second terminals and to the reference resistor, and configured to compare a voltage drop caused by said test current between the first and second terminal with the reference voltage. |
| US10209142B2 |
Temperature calibrator
The object of the invention is a temperature calibrator for calibrating temperature sensors, wherein the temperature calibrator comprises at least one calibration volume, the temperature of which is to be adjusted and into which the temperature sensors to be calibrated can be inserted, at least one temperature control unit, which is in thermal contact with the calibration volume via one or several thermally conductive bodies, at least one temperature sensor, which is in thermal contact with said calibration volume, and at least one electrical control unit, which is electrically connected with the at least one temperature control unit and the at least one temperature sensor, wherein the temperature calibrator further comprises at least one magnetocaloric material and at least one magnetic field generating device. |
| US10209137B1 |
Measuring temperature in an electric motor
A system for measuring temperature in an electric motor includes an interface communicatively coupled to a motor and a processor coupled to the interface. In various embodiments, the processor is configured to obtain access to a temperature-measuring electrical path, where the temperature-measuring electrical path rotates relative to a magnetic field, and the temperature-measuring electrical path has no net induced voltage due to magnetic field as the temperature-measuring electrical path rotates relative to the magnetic field. The processor may be further configured to determine a resistance associated with the temperature-measuring electrical path, and determine a temperature of the motor based at least in part on the resistance. |
| US10209133B2 |
Wavelength estimation device, light-source device, image display apparatus, object apparatus, wavelength estimation method, and light-source control method
A wavelength estimation device including a light detector to receive light emitted from a light source and an estimation unit. The estimation unit estimates a wavelength of the light based on an amount of light received by the light detector. |
| US10209132B2 |
Global solar spectrum devices and methods
Solar spectral irradiance (SSI) measurements are important for solar collector/photovoltaic panel efficiency and solar energy resource assessment as well as being important for scientific meteorological/climate observations and material testing research. To date such measurements have exploited modified diffraction grating based scientific instruments which are bulky, expensive, and with low mechanical integrity for generalized deployment. A compact and cost-effective tool for accurately determining the global solar spectra as well as the global horizontal or tilted irradiances as part of on-site solar resource assessments and module performance characterization studies would be beneficial. An instrument with no moving parts for mechanical and environment stability in open field, non-controlled deployments could exploit software to resolve the global, direct and diffuse solar spectra from its measurements within the 280-4000 nm spectral range, in addition to major atmospheric processes, such as air mass, Rayleigh scattering, aerosol extinction, ozone and water vapor absorptions. |
| US10209131B2 |
Automated delay line alignment
A system and method for aligning a light beam in a spectroscopic measuring device such as a pump-probe device is provided. The system and method comprise a first motorized mirror (66b) positioned to receive and transmit a light beam (60a); a second motorized mirror (66c) positioned relative to the first mirror to receive the light beam from the first mirror and transmit the light beam to a delay line (64); a third mirror (78) positioned to receive the light beam from the delay line and transmit said light beam to a detector (80); and a computer-based processor (82) in communication with the detector and the first and second mirrors, the processor configured to a) receive and process data relating to the light beam from the detector, and b) cause movement of the first and second mirrors to change an angle of the mirrors based on the data relating to the light beam. |
| US10209128B2 |
Light intensity detection circuit, light intensity detector, detection method thereof and display device
A light intensity detection circuit, a light intensity detector, a detection method thereof and a display device are provided. The light intensity detection circuit includes a first reverser, a second reverser, a third reverser, a photosensor and an energy storage element. The first reverser respectively outputs a voltage of the first voltage terminal or the second voltage terminal to the energy storage element under the control of the signal input terminal of the light intensity detection circuit. The second reverser and the third reverser are configured to control transmission of photocurrent generated by the photosensor along a first direction or a second direction. The energy storage element controls a voltage of the signal output terminal of the light intensity detection circuit through voltage storage or voltage release. |
| US10209125B2 |
Monolithic integration of ultraviolet and infrared radiation detectors and manufacturing process thereof
A semiconductor device for flame detection, including: a semiconductor body having a first conductivity type conductivity, delimited by a front surface and forming a cathode region; an anode region having a second conductivity type conductivity, which extends within the semiconductor body, starting from the front surface, and forms, together with the cathode region, the junction of a photodiode that detect ultraviolet radiation emitted by the flames; a supporting dielectric region; and a sensitive region, which is arranged on the supporting dielectric region and varies its own resistance as a function of the infrared radiation emitted by the flames. |
| US10209121B2 |
Multiple weighing scale
A multiple weighing scale includes a first measuring device and at least a second measuring device; both for detecting masses of objects. The weighing scale includes a single measuring plate, which is shared by all the measuring devices, arranged in contact with the first measuring device at least in an initial operating configuration and at least one first mobile structure, for selectively moving the second measuring device so as to selectively cause the second measuring device to come into contact with the measuring plate, in order to allow the measurement to be performed by the second measuring device instead of the first measuring device. |
| US10209120B2 |
Level sender with contactless sensor
A level sender for a tank includes a sensor device. A driven member is associated with a float assembly. The sensor device is adapted to determine a level of fluid within the tank based on an angular position of the driven member. A float arm is coupled to a float at a first end and is coupled to the driven member at a second end. |
| US10209119B2 |
System for sensing flowable substrate levels in a storage unit
A system for estimating a flowable substrate level in a storage unit is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a transmitter and a conductor that extend downwardly into a grain storage bin, which cycles through a range of frequencies in order to determine the resonant frequency of the conductor which changes depending on the amount of grain in the bin. |
| US10209115B2 |
Yield monitoring apparatus, systems, and methods
Apparatus, systems and methods are provided for monitoring yield while harvesting grain. Grain released from paddles on the clean grain elevator chain of a harvester contacts a flow sensor which reports the rate of grain flow through the clean grain elevator. In some embodiments a brush is mounted to the chain and disposed to clean the flow sensor surface. In other embodiments a bucket mounted to the clean grain elevator chain releases grain against the flow sensor at a rate dependent on a grain property. |
| US10209112B2 |
Apparatus and method for detecting asymmetric flow in vibrating flowmeters
A flowmeter is provided that includes a sensor assembly and meter electronics. The flowmeter comprises two or more flow tubes, a driver coupled to the flow tubes that is oriented to induce a drive mode vibration in the flow tubes. Two or more strain gages are coupled to the two flow tubes and oriented to detect the phase of the drive mode vibration. One or more bridge circuits is in electrical communication with the two or more strain gages, wherein the bridge circuits are configured to output a signal indicating an asymmetric flow between the two flow tubes. |
| US10209107B2 |
Geometric error identification method of multi-axis machine tool and multi-axis machine tool
A geometric error identification method of multi-axis machine tool includes a measuring step of indexing a position of a target ball mounted on one of a main spindle and a table into a plurality of angles around an rotation axis, and measuring the position of the target ball at respective indexed positions by using a touch probe mounted on the other one of the main spindle and the table, a geometric error calculation step of calculating a geometric error from the measured position of the target ball, an ellipse-expression calculation step of calculating an ellipse approximate expression by an arc trajectory measured by operating the rotation axis, and an error correcting step of calculating and correcting a scaling error of translation axes from the calculated ellipse approximate expression. |
| US10209106B2 |
Electronic devices with environmental sensors
An electronic device may be provided with environmental sensors. Environmental sensors may include one or more environmental sensor components and one or more acoustic components. Acoustic components may include a speaker or a microphone. Environmental sensor components may include a temperature sensor, a pressure sensor, a humidity sensor, a gas sensor, or other sensors or combinations of sensors for sensing attributes of the environment surrounding the device. The environmental sensor may have an enclosure with an opening. The enclosure may be formed from a rigid support structure and a portion of a printed circuit. The opening may be formed in the rigid support structure or the printed circuit. The opening in the enclosure for the environmental sensor may be aligned with an opening in an outer structural member for the device. The outer structural member may be a housing structure or a cover layer for a device display. |
| US10209105B2 |
Retractable assembly
The present disclosure relates to a retractable assembly for immersion, flow and attachment measuring systems in analytical process technology that includes an essentially hollow cylindrically shaped housing having a service chamber formed in its interior, where the housing includes an encircling groove open to its interior, where the groove includes an expansion space expanding the groove, where the expansion space is arranged on the side of the groove facing away from the interior, and where the housing includes a leakage path, which connects the expansion space with the environment. |
| US10209103B2 |
Linear encoder
A linear encoder includes a scale disposed within a housing and a scanning unit that is displaceable in a measuring direction relative to the scale. The scanning unit includes a scanning head disposed inside of the housing opposite to the scale such that the scale is scannable by the scanning head, as well as a mount to which the scanning head is fastened, and a driving component, via which the mount is coupled to a mounting base disposed outside of the housing. A vibration damper suppresses vibrations transversely to the measuring direction. The vibration damper is disposed on the mount or on the scanning head, and includes a damping mass and an elastic element. The damping mass is fastened by the elastic element to an attachment surface of the mount or of the scanning head. |
| US10209101B2 |
Rotation detection apparatus
A rotation detection apparatus, including: a beam source for emitting a beam of polarized light; a decohering arrangement for eliminating or reducing the degree of coherence between first and second independent polarization components of the polarized light to produce a decohered beam of polarized light; a detector for outputting a signal in dependence on the intensity of light incident thereupon, the detector arranged so that the decohered beam of polarized light is incident upon it; a polarizer for location in the path of the decohered beam of polarized light such that rotation of the polarizer relative to the decohered beam of polarized light results in a variation of the intensity of light incident upon the detector from the beam source and a corresponding variation in the signal output from the detector; and a processor for detecting the relative rotation based on the variation of the signal output from the detector. |
| US10209095B2 |
Eddy current sensor
The present invention provides an eddy current sensor, comprising: a housing; a plurality of probes which are all disposed inside the housing, probing ends of the probes being all disposed at inner side of an exterior surface of the housing to avoid the probing ends of the probes from protruding out of the exterior surface of the housing. Because the probing ends of the plurality of probes are all located at the inner side of the exterior surface of the housing, the housing will protect the probes when the eddy current sensor is hit by an external force, thereby avoiding damage of the probes due to the impact, which reduces fault rate of the probes, enhances use reliability of the eddy current sensor, and prolongs service life of the eddy current sensor. |
| US10209091B2 |
Measurement tool, calibration method, calibration apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium
A measurement tool includes a first member and a measurement member. The first member has a surface including a chart to be used for calibration of a stereo camera. The measurement member is arranged on the surface of the first member. The measurement member includes a light source and a second member. The light source is configured to emit light with a uniform intensity regardless of a position on the surface. The second member is configured to cover the light source and radiate the light from a plurality of first holes and a plurality of second holes having a size larger than the first hole. |
| US10209090B2 |
Apparatus, method and article for authentication, security and control of power storage devices, such as batteries
A network of collection, charging and distribution machines collect, charge and distribute portable electrical energy storage devices (e.g., batteries, supercapacitors or ultracapacitors). To charge, the machines employ electrical current from an external source, such as the electrical grid or an electrical service of an installation location. By default, each portable electrical energy storage device is disabled from accepting a charge unless it receives authentication information from an authorized collection, charging and distribution machine, other authorized charging device, or other authorized device that transmits the authentication credentials. Also, by default, each portable electrical energy storage device is disabled from releasing energy unless it receives authentication information from an external device to which it will provide power, such as a vehicle or other authorization device. |
| US10209082B2 |
Method and apparatus for matching probe points to road segments utilizing a trajectory identifier
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to match probe points to road segments utilizing a trajectory identifier, thereby increasing the accuracy with which probe points, such as probe points in ambiguous locations, are matched to road segments. For a probe point having a respective trajectory identifier (ID) and associated with an ambiguous link tuple, the method identifies each probe point having the respective trajectory ID that is unambiguously matched to first or second branches. The method separately determines a number of probe points having the respective trajectory ID that are unambiguously matched to the first and second branches. The method matches the probe point having the respective trajectory ID and associated with the ambiguous link tuple to either the first branch or the second branch based upon the number of probe points having the respective trajectory ID that are unambiguously matched to the first and second branches. |
| US10209081B2 |
System and method for precision localization and mapping
A method for localization and mapping, including recording an image at a camera mounted to a vehicle, the vehicle associated with a global system location; identifying a landmark depicted in the image with a landmark identification module of a computing system associated with the vehicle, the identified landmark having a landmark geographic location and a known parameter; extracting a set of landmark parameters from the image with a feature extraction module of the computing system; determining, at the computing system, a relative position between the vehicle and the landmark geographic location based on a comparison between the extracted set of landmark parameters and the known parameter; and updating, at the computing system, the global system location based on the relative position. |
| US10209077B2 |
Method for accelerometer-assisted navigation
A method for primarily sensor-based navigation includes: in a first time period, collecting geophysical position data using a GPS receiver of a navigation device; in the first time period, collecting a first set of accelerometer data using an accelerometer of the navigation device; analyzing the first set of accelerometer data to produce a first set of vertical vehicular motion data; generating a mapping association between the first set of vertical vehicular motion data and the geophysical position data; in a second time period after the first time period, collecting a second set of accelerometer data using the accelerometer; analyzing the second set of accelerometer data to produce a second set of vertical vehicular motion data; and calculating an estimated location of the vehicle by analyzing the second set of vertical vehicular motion data in light of the mapping association. |
| US10209073B2 |
Location-determining device in a motor vehicle and information merging method
The invention relates to a location-determining device in a motor vehicle which comprises at least one receiver device for receiving position signals and time signals for a multiplicity of satellites assigned to a global navigation system and a location-calculating module for calculating location information on the basis of received position data and time data. The location-Determining device is distinguished by the fact that the at least one receiver device is structurally integrated into the housing of an optical sensor unit, wherein the housing is arranged in a passenger compartment in a region of an upper edge of a windscreen, and wherein the housing does not have more than a single connection to a vehicle data bus and not more than a single connection to a vehicle energy supply. |
| US10209072B2 |
Stacked lateral overlap transducer (SLOT) based three-axis accelerometer
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for making and using accelerometers. Some such accelerometers include a substrate, a first plurality of electrodes, a second plurality of electrodes, a first anchor attached to the substrate, a frame and a proof mass. The substrate may extend substantially in a first plane. The proof mass may be attached to the frame, may extend substantially in a second plane and may be substantially constrained for motion along first and second axes. The frame may be attached to the first anchor, may extend substantially in a second plane and may be substantially constrained for motion along the second axis. A lateral movement of the proof mass in response to an applied lateral acceleration along the first or second axes may result in a change in capacitance at the first or second plurality of electrodes. |
| US10209071B2 |
Microelectromechanical structure with enhanced rejection of acceleration noise
An integrated MEMS structure includes a driving assembly anchored to a substrate and actuated with a driving movement. A pair of sensing masses suspended above the substrate and coupled to the driving assembly via elastic elements is fixed in the driving movement and performs a movement along a first direction of detection, in response to an external stress. A coupling assembly couples the pair of sensing masses mechanically to couple the vibration modes. The coupling assembly is formed by a rigid element, which connects the sensing masses and has a point of constraint in an intermediate position between the sensing masses, and elastic coupling elements for coupling the rigid element to the sensing masses to present a first stiffness to a movement in phase-opposition and a second stiffness, greater than the first, to a movement in phase, of the sensing masses along the direction of detection. |
| US10209070B2 |
MEMS gyroscope device
A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) gyroscope device includes a substrate having a surface parallel to a plane; first and second proof masses driven to slide back and forth past one another in a first directional axis of the plane, where the first and second proof masses respectively have a first and second recess in a respective side closest to the other proof mass; a pivot structure coupled to the first proof mass within the first recess and to the second proof mass within the second recess; an anchor between the first and second recesses and coupled to a mid-point of the pivot structure; and third and fourth proof masses driven to move toward and away from one another in a second directional axis of the plane that is perpendicular to the first directional axis; where the proof masses move in response to angular velocity in one or more directional axes. |
| US10209065B2 |
Detachable protective coverings and protection methods
A detachable hazard detection device includes a protective covering configured to detachably couple to an article. A plurality of proximity sensors are coupled to the protective covering. Each of the plurality of proximity sensors is configured to gather proximity information. Electronics are embedded in the protective covering, and the electronics include a controller coupled to the plurality of proximity sensors. The controller is configured to determine a proximity of the article to an object based on the proximity information. The controller is further configured to initiate a notification based on the proximity. |
| US10209055B2 |
Sensor device and stretchable structure
A sensor device includes a sensor element, a converter, and an output unit. The sensor element includes a sheet-like dielectric layer including an elastomer composition and a top electrode layer and a bottom electrode layer each including an electroconductive composition containing carbon nanotubes. The top and the bottom electrode layers are formed on a top surface and a bottom surface of the dielectric layer, respectively, and are at least partially opposed to each other across the dielectric layer. The at least partially opposed portions of the top and the bottom electrode layers constitute a detection portion, and the dielectric layer reversibly deforms to change an area of a main surface of the dielectric layer. The converter electrically is connected to the sensor element and converts capacitance at the detection portion that varies in accordance with the deformation of the dielectric layer to electric characteristics. |
| US10209053B2 |
Tool calibration system
A tool calibration system includes a tool and a wrench pivotally coupled to the tool. The tool calibration system also includes a tool calibration device coupled to the tool and to the wrench. The tool calibration device includes a baseplate including an arcuate slot defined therein and a pin coupled to the baseplate and slidably moveable along the slot. The pin is configured to engage the wrench such that movement of the pin along the slot causes rotation of the wrench. |
| US10209052B1 |
Cake construction tool
Apparatus and tools for constructing cakes are described herein. In various embodiments, an apparatus for use in cake construction may include a frame. In various embodiments, the frame may include a first end, a second end, a top, and a bottom. In various embodiments, a vertical post may pass through the top and the bottom. At least one arm may be rotatably connected to the post, such that the at least one arm is rotatable circularly about a longitudinal axis of the post. In various embodiments, the post may be positionable at a center of a circle coincident with a circular cake such that the at least one arm is rotatable about the post to demarcate a circumference of the circle. |
| US10209047B2 |
Radial conduit cutting system
What is presented is a high power igniter that releasably secures to a cutting apparatus that is used for radially projecting a flow of heated gas to cut from an internal surface through an external surface of a conduit used for oil, gas, mining, and underwater pressure sealed tool applications. The high power igniter comprises an igniter housing adapted to be positioned in the conduit. The igniter housing comprises a containment sub and a nozzle sub that releasably secure to each other. The nozzle sub for directing the flow of the heated gas toward the cutting apparatus and releasably securing to the cutting apparatus. A high wattage heater in the igniter housing comprises a metal magnalium thermite pellet insertable into the igniter housing for creating the flow of heated gas when the high power igniter is in use and a pellet igniting device. |
| US10209042B2 |
Cartridge casing
A cartridge casing comprises a casing tube having a first end and a head cap. The first end of the casing tube abuts and is joined with the head cap such that an orifice in the first end of the casing tube is aligned with a passage in the head cap to define a flash passage. The head cap and casing tube are held together by a deformable member. |
| US10209038B2 |
Electrified stun curtain
A curtain of a flexible fabric is provided that is deployable to create a physical and visual barrier between an employee and a person perpetuating a crime such as a robbery or assault. The barrier can be in the form of a curtain that is electrified with an extreme high voltage, similar to a stun gun, and which prevents the assailant from approaching an employee or a restricted area. The curtain can be mounted in any area where it is beneficial to limit site and access of a trespasser or an assailant, such as between a cashier at a convenience store and the store's open retail area. The curtain can also be used to create temporary safe rooms or deployed within hallways of a restricted area to limit movement of an intruder. |
| US10209037B2 |
Heat accumulator for fog generator
The invention provides a heat accumulator (1) for vaporizing fog liquid in a fog generator, the heat accumulator comprising multiple closely contiguous, parallel oriented rods (2) with a diameter of between 0.2 mm and 15 mm. |
| US10209036B1 |
Ballistic shade system
The present invention relates to a ballistic shade system which provides a means for rolling up and down ballistic material and holding it in place during a ballistic event. |
| US10209034B2 |
Pitching angle fitting method for integrated precision photoelectric sighting system
The present invention belongs to the technical field of sighting telescopes, and specifically relates to a pitching angle fitting method for an integrated precision photoelectric sighting system. The present invention puts forward a precision photoelectric sighting system which is simple in shooting calibration and quick and accurate in sighting, adapts to any environmental factor and can furthest reduce the use of sensors and realize double-eye sighting, and provides a pitching angle fitting method for an integrated precision photoelectric sighting system. The system comprises a view field acquisition unit, a display unit, a ranging unit and a sighting circuit unit; the sighting circuit unit is provided with a memory card, the memory card stores the pitching angle fitting method, and precision shooting in any environment is realized using the integrated precision photoelectric sighting system. |
| US10209033B1 |
Light sighting and training device
A sighting/training device configured to be mounted to a pistol handle of a gun incorporates a light source, a power source, and a control. The device has at least two operating modes and a switch to select one of the modes. In a first operating mode the light source emits light when a button grip is pressed by a user, and does not emit light when the button grip is not depressed. In a second mode the light source emits light when a sound, such as the sound of a gun firing pin, is detected. |
| US10209032B1 |
Firearm holster assembly
A holster assembly is configured to be worn on a belt. The holster assembly has a holster inner portion, joined to a holster outer portion. The holster outer portion further includes an outer wall that is defined by an outer wall axis. A first clip is joined to the holster inner portion and the holster outer portion. The first clip further comprises a first clip upper portion top portion that is an arc that is extruded along a top portion central axis. An angle measured counterclockwise from the top portion central axis to the outer wall axis is at least five degrees but no more than fifteen degrees. |
| US10209029B2 |
High performance muzzle loading breech plug
A muzzle loading breech plug system designed for high performance muzzle loading rifles, including, but not limited to, bolt actions and break actions. The system is comprised of the following: 1) A breech plug body threaded to fit corresponding threads on the muzzle loading firearm. 2) A bushing designed to prevent powder from passing completely through the barrel, but still allowing flame from primer to ignite powder while being resistant to gas wear. 3) A retention module/adapter insert that holds bushing in place while mating with primer holder module. 4) Primer holder module designed to hold a large rifle magnum primer and mate up with the other components of the system providing reliable sealing and consistent ignition. |
| US10209027B2 |
Retention structure of crossbow
A retention structure of a crossbow contains a fixer including a seat, a rolling element, a resilient element, and a shock absorber. The seat has an affix sheet, a fitting tube, at least one threaded aperture, an accommodation aperture, and an engagement portion. A diameter of the engagement portion is less than that of the accommodation aperture. The seat contacts with the connection mount. At least one screwing element screws with the at least one threaded aperture via the at least one locking orifice. The rolling element is housed in the accommodation aperture of the seat and is limited by the engagement portion. The resilient element is housed in the accommodation aperture and abuts against the connection mount and the rolling element. The shock absorber has a through hole and fits on the fitting tube of the seat by using the through hole. |
| US10209023B1 |
Weapon rest
A weapon rest for placing a weapon on includes a bar that is oriented horizontally. A plurality of mounts is releasably positioned on the bar in an upright position wherein a weapon is positionable across each of the mounts such that the weapon rest thereon. |
| US10209022B1 |
Muzzle device and venturi blast shield
A muzzle device and blast shield. The muzzle device includes a body portion having a central borehole, and wherein the body portion comprises a plurality of prongs defined between longitudinally extending slots formed in the body portion and porting apertures, wherein the porting apertures provide fluid communication between an exterior of the muzzle device and at least one longitudinally extending slot. The blast shield includes a body portion having a central borehole, wherein the body portion comprises a couple portion having an internal cavity, a barrel extension portion extending into at least a portion of the internal cavity, and a plurality of porting apertures, wherein the porting apertures provide fluid communication between an exterior of the blast shield and the internal cavity. |
| US10209021B1 |
Interlocking, positioning and firing device for toy gun
An interlocking, positioning and firing device for a toy gun includes a trigger element, top portion formed on the trigger element, at least one toggle assembly configured on one side of the trigger element and bullet room element configured on one side of the toggle assembly, bullet placement spaces formed on the bullet room element, at least one interlocking element configured on one side of the trigger element and operated in cooperation therewith and hitting assembly configured on one side of the interlocking element and operated in cooperation therewith to hit bullets. Whereby, the bullets can be mounted inside the bullet placement spaces, and the toggle assembly can be forced to toggle the bullet room element by propping the top portion against the toggle assembly and the hitting element cannot be acted until the bullet is positioned correspondingly to the hitting element when the trigger element is pulled. |
| US10209010B2 |
Pressureless heat storage device for water temperatures over 100° C
A heat storage device for storing and providing heat energy accruing with the power generation by means of a fluid, includes at least a first and a second chamber. The first chamber is disposed above the second chamber and a conduit disposed substantially in the chambers connects an upper region of the first chamber to a lower region of the second chamber, such that in operation there are no temperature differences and thus also no buoyancy forces between end points of the conduit. An installation is for combined heat and power, and a method is for storing and providing heat energy accruing with the power generation. |
| US10209008B2 |
Two-phase heat transfer device
A two-phase heat transfer device that is capillary-driven or gravity-driven, has a two-phase working fluid contained in a closed general circuit, including an evaporator, a condenser, a reservoir having an inner volume with a liquid portion and a gas portion, a first vapor communication circuit, and a second liquid phase communication circuit. The reservoir comprises a plurality of floating bodies separating the liquid portion from the gas portion, by means of which the heat exchanges between the liquid portion and the gas portion are slowed down, which allows to diminish the effect of movement of the liquid portion or of an influx of cold or warm liquid into the reservoir. |
| US10209007B2 |
Method and arrangement for monitoring performance of a burner of a suspension smelting furnace
Provided are a method and an arrangement for monitoring performance of a burner of a suspension smelting furnace. The burner is arranged at the top structure of a reaction shaft of the suspension smelting furnace. The burner has a solids feeding channel that has a solids outlet opening up into the reaction shaft, and a reaction gas channel comprising a reaction gas channel a that has a reaction gas outlet opening up into the reaction shaft. The arrangement comprises at least one imaging means for producing images representing the cross-section of the reaction gas channel, and a processing means for receiving images of the cross-section of the reaction gas channel from the imaging means. |
| US10209004B2 |
Method for obtaining an air product in an air separation plant and air separation plant
A method for obtaining an air product from an air separation plant having a distillation column system and a tank system. The tank system includes a first tank and a second tank. Cryogenic liquid is withdrawn from the distillation column system, stored in the tank system, and used as the air product. The cryogenic liquid is supplied to the first tank and withdrawn from the second tank during a first period, and is supplied to the second tank and withdrawn from the first tank during a second period. The tank system has a third tank to which cryogenic liquid withdrawn from the first tank and the second tank is transferred unheated. The air product is withdrawn from the third tank in liquid state, vaporized and discharged. Alternatively, the cryogenic liquid can be withdrawn from the third tank and stored in the liquid state in a fourth tank. |
| US10209002B2 |
Rail device and refrigerator having the same
Disclosed herein is a refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a body having a storage compartment therein, a storage body provided to be inserted into or withdrawn from the storage compartment, and a rail device configured to connect the body and the storage body slidingly and to guide insertion and withdrawal of the storage body, wherein the rail device includes a first rail member having a first guider therein, a second rail member slidingly coupled to the first rail member, and a first retainer disposed at an insertion position between the first rail member and the second rail member when the first rail member is inserted into the first retainer and having a first guide protrusion inserted into the first guider movably, formed in the first retainer, and the first guider limits a range of movement in an insertion direction of the first retainer when the first retainer is inserted into the first guider so that the first retainer is located at the insertion position. |
| US10209001B2 |
Domestic refrigerator with a dispensing unit with two closure elements on a discharge channel
A domestic refrigerator includes a housing surrounding a receiving area for food and a dispensing unit disposed in the housing. The dispensing unit is constructed to dispense refrigerated pourable goods and has a container for receiving the refrigerated goods and a discharge channel coupled to the container for discharging the refrigerated goods from the container to the exterior of the housing. A first closure element is provided for closing the discharge channel. A second closure element, which is separate from the first closure element, is also provided for closing the discharge channel. The second closure element lies closer to the container than the first closure element when viewed along the discharge channel. |
| US10208999B2 |
Refrigeration heating assembly and method of operation
A refrigeration heating assembly and method of operation are generally provided herein. The heating assembly may include an inner glass tube, a resistive heating element, an outer glass tube, a first end cap, a second end cap, and a sensor assembly. The inner glass tube may include a continuous inner wall defining a central passage. The resistive heating element may be disposed within the central passage. The outer glass tube may include a continuous outer wall disposed about the inner glass tube. A radial gap may be defined between the glass tubes. The first end cap may be positioned on the outer glass tube and the inner glass tube at a first end. The second end cap may be positioned on the outer glass tube and the inner glass tube at a second end. The sensor assembly may be disposed in fluid communication with the radial gap. |
| US10208996B2 |
Ice tray assembly
A tray assembly for a device for freezing a liquid, the assembly includes a frame defining an aperture. A thermally conductive tray is sized to be received within the aperture, the thermally conductive tray having a body and a lip circumferentially disposed about the body, the thermally conductive tray being seated within the aperture and defining a first surface and an opposite second surface, the first surface defining a recess and the second surface defining a plurality of receptacles. A gasket is included and sized to surround the body and to be disposed between the lip and the frame. An insulation chamber is coupled to the frame. |
| US10208993B2 |
Fault detection and diagnosis for refrigerator from compressor sensor
A refrigerator, a sealed refrigerant system, and method are provided where the refrigerator includes at least a refrigerated compartment and a sealed refrigerant system including an evaporator, a compressor, a condenser, a controller, an evaporator fan, and a condenser fan. The method includes monitoring a frequency of the compressor, and identifying a fault condition in the at least one component of the refrigerant sealed system in response to the compressor frequency. The method may further comprise calculating a compressor frequency rate based upon the rate of change of the compressor frequency, wherein a fault in the condenser fan is identified if the compressor frequency rate is positive and exceeds a condenser fan fault threshold rate, and wherein a fault in the evaporator fan is identified if the compressor frequency rate is negative and exceeds an evaporator fan fault threshold rate. |
| US10208991B2 |
Heat pump device, and air conditioner, heat pump water heater, refrigerator and freezing machine including heat pump device
A heat pump device includes an inverter control unit for controlling an inverter. The inverter control unit includes a constraint-energization control unit that, during operation standby of a compressor, determines whether heating to the compressor is necessary, on the basis of a refrigeration stagnation amount in the compressor, and, when having determined that heating to the compressor is necessary, selects, according to the refrigeration stagnation amount, any one of direct-current energization for supplying a direct-current voltage to the motor and high-frequency energization for supplying a high-frequency voltage having a frequency higher than a frequency during a normal operation to the motor, so as to output a constraint energization command for carrying out constraint energization of the motor; and a driving-signal generating unit that generates a driving signal on the basis of the constraint energization command. |
| US10208990B2 |
Thermoelectric device controls and methods
According to some embodiments, a thermoelectric system includes a thermoelectric device having a first surface and a second surface and a power source configured to deliver a voltage across the thermoelectric device to selectively activate or deactivate the thermoelectric device, wherein the first surface is configured to heat and the second surface is configured to cool when the thermoelectric device is activated. The system further includes a processor configured to determine a potential between the first surface and the second surface when the thermoelectric device is deactivated, correlate the potential to a temperature of the first surface and adjust the correlated temperature of the first surface based on an ambient temperature. |
| US10208985B2 |
Flash tank pressure control for transcritical system with ejector(s)
In certain embodiments, a transcritical refrigeration system provides refrigeration by circulating carbon dioxide (CO2) refrigerant through the system. A flash tank of the transcritical refrigeration system is operable to supply the CO2 refrigerant, in liquid form, to a low temperature refrigeration case and a medium temperature refrigeration case. A low temperature compressor is operable to compress the CO2 refrigerant discharged from the low temperature refrigeration case. A medium temperature compressor, a parallel compressor, and an ejector are each operable to compress the CO2 refrigerant discharged from the medium temperature refrigeration case, the CO2 refrigerant discharged from the low temperature compressor, and/or CO2 flash gas discharged from the flash tank. A gas cooler is operable to cool the CO2 refrigerant discharged from the medium temperature compressor and the parallel compressor. A controller is operable to dynamically adjust a pressure set point for the flash tank. |
| US10208981B2 |
Externally tensioned pliable air ducts
Example air duct assemblies include a pliable air duct supported such that the duct is maintained in a generally expanded shape even when the duct is deflated. In some examples, a series of hangers suspend the duct from one or more cables, tracks or other type of overhead support. The hangers are spaced apart and distributed over the length of the duct, and each one contributes in pulling the duct taut in the duct's longitudinal direction. |
| US10208980B2 |
Shell ductings for cool air delivery
An air duct is described herein. The air duct includes a duct housing having a first end and a second end and at least one vent disposed between the first end and the second end. The air duct also includes a plurality of dividers disposed between the first end and the second end and a plurality of channels. The plurality of channels are disposed between the first end and the second end and are derived from the plurality of dividers. The plurality of channels are to cool a first component and a second component of a computing device, wherein the duct housing is to encompass the first component and the second component. The duct housing is positioned with the first component located upstream of an air flow and the second component disposed downstream of the air flow. |
| US10208965B2 |
Device for preheating inlet of a hot water supply
The instant invention provides for a kit and method of raising inlet temperature of a water supply by utilizing thermodynamic properties associated with difference in temperatures across a gradient and friction. In particular a portion of an inlet supply pipe is disposed in a sewer line such that the opposing flow of waste water and related material interacts with the inlet piping by increasing the temperature thereof. |
| US10208964B2 |
Steam cooking oven and method
A method for reducing energy consumption in a steam cooker that includes a steam cooking cavity, a steam generator for delivering steam along a steam path to the steam cooking cavity, a steam outlet from the steam cooking cavity to a first flow path leading to a drain path. The method involves: (a) utilizing a second flow path from the steam outlet to a vent stack to deliver excess steam flows from the steam cooking cavity up the vent stack rather than down to the drain box; (b) sensing temperature within the vent stack; and (c) utilizing sensed temperature within the vent stack to regulate power of a heating unit of the steam generator to produce steam in a controlled manner that reduces flows of excess steam out of the steam cooking cavity. |
| US10208961B2 |
One-piece sheet-metal structure formed with clench locked corners
A one-piece sheet-metal structure includes a first wall, a second wall perpendicularly extending from the first wall, and a third wall perpendicularly extending from the first wall. The second wall is perpendicular to the first wall and the third wall. An end edge of the second wall is adjacent an end edge of the third wall to form a corner. The corner is provided with a clench lock so that the corner is weld-free. The clench lock includes bottom and top tabs. The bottom tab perpendicularly extends from the end edge of the second wall at a bottom tab bend and engages an inner side of the third wall. The top tab perpendicularly extends from an outer edge of the third wall at a top tab bend and bends around the bottom tab and engages an inner side of the bottom tab to clench the bottom tab at the corner. |
| US10208955B2 |
Ceramic and metal engine components with gradient transition from metal to ceramic
A combustor is provided. The combustor may comprise a shell including a ceramic material. A gradient transition from ceramic to metal may have a predominantly ceramic side coupled to the shell. A metal mating surface may also be coupled to a predominantly metal side of the gradient transition from ceramic to metal. |
| US10208954B2 |
Method and system for controlling an ignition sequence for an intermittent flame-powered pilot combustion system
A locally powered intermittent pilot combustion controller may include an igniter, a thermal electric and/or photoelectric device that produces an electrical signal having power when exposed to a flame, and a local power source for providing power when the thermal electric and/or photoelectric device is not exposed to a flame. In some cases, the intermittent pilot combustion controller may include a memory for storing information about an ignition sequence for igniting a pilot flame, and a controller coupled to the memory. The controller may be configured to initiate the ignition sequence of the pilot flame using information stored in the memory, determine whether the ignition was successful by monitoring the electrical signal produced by the thermal electric and/or photoelectric device, and adjust the information stored in the memory based on whether the ignition sequence completed successfully. |
| US10208953B2 |
Modulating burner
A modulating burner apparatus includes a variable speed blower feeding a multi-chamber burner having first and second burner chambers. A manifold system communicates the blower with the burner, and a flow control valve member is located between the blower and the second chamber of the burner. The flow control valve is configured to provide fuel and air mixture from the blower to only the first burner chamber at lower blower speeds of the blower and to both the first and second burner chambers at higher blower speeds of the blower. |
| US10208952B2 |
Combustion method and installation with optimized energy recuperation
Combustion method and installation in which an oxygen-rich oxidant is preheated by exchange of heat with a heat-transfer fluid, upstream of the combustion chamber, in which method and installation an auxiliary gas is heated by heat exchange with a first proportion of the hot flue gases discharged from the chamber, and in which method and installation the heat-transfer fluid comprises a mixture of at least a proportion of the heated auxiliary gas with a proportion of hot flue gases. |
| US10208951B2 |
Spray dryer absorber and related processes
A spray dryer absorber (SDA) system used to reduce the concentration of at least one acid compound in a gas utilizes low or no alkali-containing particulate compounds to prevent cementing during operation. The low or no-alkali-containing compounds may be supplied from external sources and/or from a particulate collection device located downstream of the SDA. |
| US10208948B2 |
Solid fuel grade gasification-combustion dual bed poly-generation system and method thereof
The present invention demonstrates a solid fuel grade gasification-combustion dual bed poly-generation system, comprising a combustion system, a gasification system, a synthesized gas cooling and purifying system and a synthesized gas methanation system. The combustion system is connected with the gasification system through a circulating material return system. The gasification system mainly adapts the circulating fluidized-bed combustion mode. The gasification system adapts the fluidized-bed incomplete gasification method and the generated semi-coke is returned to the combustion system for re-utilization. The synthesized gas purifying and cooling unit adapts water cycling and combustible recycling. The by-products, CO2 and steam, in the methanation unit can be recovered, so the maximum utilization rate of energy in this system is realized. |
| US10208947B2 |
Cloud-level analytics for boiler networks
A boiler control system executing on a cloud platform facilitates remote control system analysis and generation of suitable set point parameters for a given boiler application. The system includes a system interface component, a modeling component and a correlation analytics component. The system interface component collects industrial data associated with a set of boilers and demand data associated with a set of loads. The system interface component also stores the industrial data and the demand data on a cloud platform. The modeling component generates a boiler behavioral model for storage on the cloud platform based on analysis of the industrial data and the demand data. The boiler behavioral model defines at least one correlation between efficiency and capacity associated with the set of boilers. The correlation analytics component determines at least one set point parameter for the set of boilers based on analysis of the boiler behavioral model. |
| US10208946B2 |
LED heating lamp and fan
In combination with a building room having a ceiling defining a recessed lighting aperture and a cavity with a lighting receptacle disposed therein, wherein an improvement is disclosed that includes an LED lamp with a housing having a first end with a connector removably coupled to the light receptacle. The lamp has a second end defining a front face with an output vent disposed thereon. The light also has a heating element housed within the housing and electrically coupled to the lighting receptacle, a fan housed within the housing and electrically coupled to the lighting receptacle that is operably configured to emit air in an air-emitting direction substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction and through the heating element and the output vent, and has at least one LED bulb disposed on the rear face operably configured to emit light to an ambient environment. |
| US10208944B2 |
Semiconductor lamp having a heat sink
The semiconductor lamp (1) is equipped with a heat sink (2, 3) which has a first part (2) and a second part (3) connected to each other by way of a press fit and which together delimit a receptacle (10, 12) for a driver (5), the first part (2) having an insert region (8) for insertion into the second part (3), which insert region consists of spring elements (21) that can be pushed inwards. The invention is particularly useful for retrofit lamps, in particular incandescent or halogen retrofit lamps. |
| US10208942B2 |
Light source unit and lamp
A light source unit includes a heat-dissipation member having positive expansibility that volume is expanded with an increase in temperature, the heat-dissipation member having a through-hole, a heating component having a heating component body and a pin terminal, the heating component body fixed to the heat-dissipation member in one opening side of the through-hole, the pin terminal connected to the heating component body, and inserted through the through hole and protruding from the other opening side of the through-hole of the heat-dissipation member a substrate fixed to the heat-dissipation member in the other opening side of the through-hole and having a wiring connected to the pin terminal, and a buffering member having negative thermal-expansibility that volume is contracted with an increase in temperature. |
| US10208941B2 |
Lamp comprising cooling means
According to the invention a lamp (100, 200) is provided. The lamp (100, 200) comprising: a wick structure (102, 202) hosting a solid state light source (104, 204) and comprising a fixed wick material (108, 208), an envelope (106, 206) forming a cavity (109, 209) hosting the wick structure (102, 202), wherein the cavity (109, 209) is configured as a heat pipe comprising a working fluid (110, 210), wherein the envelope (106, 206) is shaped such that condensed working fluid (110, 210) is guided towards the fixed wick material (108, 208) independently of the spatial orientation of the lamp (100, 200). |
| US10208940B2 |
Systems and methods for coupling a metal core PCB to a heat sink
Embodiments may utilize a series of exposed fins, which increase the surface area of the heat sink creating additional air flow. As hotter air rises within the system, cooler is drawn into the heatsink. The fins may be exposed on both sides of the longitudinal axis, allowing cooler air to be drawn towards the longitudinal axis above the heatsink and flow upward. This process may cool the fins. Additionally, the spacing between the fins may have to be wide enough to allow for air to freely enter the heatsink. |
| US10208938B2 |
Lighting device with improved thermal properties
The disclosed embodiments relate to a lighting device (1) comprising an exit window (2) and a light source substrate (3) arranged to carry at least one solid-state light source (4), the at least one light source (4) being arranged to emit light through the exit window (2). The exit window (2) is shaped to allow a front surface of the light source substrate (3) to be brought into physical contact with a surface of the exit window facing the light source substrate (3), and in that the light source substrate (3) is held in physical contact with the exit window (2), thereby enabling thermal contact between the light source substrate (3) and the exit window (2). Since thermal contact between the exit window and the light source substrate is secured, the heat transfer of the lighting device will be improved. |
| US10208935B2 |
LED lighting apparatus with adjustable beam angle lens
LED lighting apparatus defining a longitudinal axis and including a lens, an element holder for holding the lens and having at least one guide pin, a fixture body for receiving the element holder and having at least a first plurality of slots extending transverse the longitudinal axis of the apparatus. The guide pin is received in at least one of the slots corresponding to a first beam angle of the lens, the element holder being configured to be selectively movable to one of the plurality of slots for selecting a projection beam angle of the LED lighting apparatus. A second plurality of slots is provided extending along the longitudinal axis and connecting the horizontal slots, such that the guide pin is repositioned from one of the first slots to another of the first slots by traveling along one of the second plurality of slots. |
| US10208934B2 |
Display devices
A display device includes a base structure, a plurality of modules coupled to the base structure, where each of the modules include a plurality of actuator assemblies. Each of the actuator assemblies is individually controllable to move the actuator assemblies between a retracted state and a plurality of extended states. A controller is coupled to each of the modules and is programmed to control the actuator assemblies to move the actuator assemblies between the retracted state and the plurality of extended states. |
| US10208931B2 |
Weapon mounted light and operation thereof
A flashlight assembly operates with a thermal optimization circuit which automatically, over time, reduces the duty cycle of the control circuit to reduce the temperature of the LED junction, improve LED performance and increase battery life. |
| US10208926B2 |
Vehicular lamp
A vehicular lamp including: a surface emitting light source including a front surface that includes a light-emitting surface, and a rear surface on the side opposite thereto; a transparent member including a light incident surface, a light exit surface from which light entering from the light incident surface exits, a light guide portion for guiding the light entering from the light incident surface to the light exit surface, and a holding portion for holding the surface emitting light source; and a light source that emits light which enters from the light incident surface, is guided to the light exit surface by the light guide portion, and exits from the light exit surface. |
| US10208924B2 |
Multi-color hunting spotlight
A multi-color spotlight has a housing having a lens on a first side, a rotational LED mechanism, a knob for actuating the rotational LED mechanism, and a power supply source within the housing operably coupled to the rotational LED mechanism, wherein the rotational LED mechanism comprises a rotatable rod having a plurality of substrates coupled around the circumference thereof, with each substrate being in a distinct geometric plane, each substrate having an LED chip in the center, and wherein only the LED chip that is positioned in the center beneath the lens is configured to receive power from the power supply source. |
| US10208921B1 |
High-reflectivity reflector manufacturing method and high-reflectivity lamp
Disclosed are a high-reflectivity reflector manufacturing method and a high-reflectivity lamp. The high-reflectivity reflector manufacturing method includes (A) preparing at least one micro foaming reflection plate processed with an anti-UV process; (B) performing a preheat process of the micro foaming reflection plate; (C) performing a heating process of the micro foaming reflection plate after being processed by the preheat process to soften the micro foaming reflection plate; (D) performing a hot pressing process to the softened micro foaming reflection plate to form a required shape of the reflector; and (E) cooling the reflector to obtain a high-reflectivity reflector. The present disclosure significantly improves the light reflectivity up to 95%˜99% as well as improving the lamp brightness. |
| US10208919B2 |
Retrofit LED lighting system for replacement of fluorescent lamp
A retrofit light emitting diode (LED) lamp is provided for replacement of ballast driven fluorescent lamps. The retrofit LED lamp comprises a plurality of light emitting diodes. The plurality of light emitting diodes is mounted on a metal core printed circuit board (MCPCB). A PCB circuit is provided for driving the plurality of LEDs that further comprises a bridge rectifier made of a schottky diode. |
| US10208904B1 |
Light hanging system
A light hanging system is described. The system employs a channel and a housing configured to slide into the channel. The housing is further configured to receive, retain and suspend at least one set of decorative lights. The channel is configured to be mounted either directly or in conjunction with at least one channel mount, to a gutter or soffit portion of a building structure. |
| US10208902B2 |
Light source assembly with multiple, disparate light sources
A light source assembly includes a housing assembly and at least two sets of disparate light sources that are coupled to the housing assembly. The sets of disparate light sources include a first plurality of disparate light sources; and a second plurality of disparate light sources. Each plurality of disparate light sources includes a first light source that generates a first light beam having a first center wavelength and a second light source that generates a second light beam having a second center wavelength that is different than the first center wavelength. The first plurality of disparate light sources generates a first output beam that is directed along a first central beam axis. The second plurality of disparate light sources generates a second output beam that is directed along a second central beam axis that is spaced apart from the first central beam axis by at least approximately sixty degrees. |
| US10208898B2 |
LED tube lamp with operating modes compatible with electrical ballasts
A light emitting diode (LED) tube lamp configured to receive an external driving signal includes an LED module for emitting light, the LED module comprising an LED unit comprising an LED; a rectifying circuit for rectifying the external driving signal to produce a rectified signal, the rectifying circuit having a first output terminal and a second output terminal for outputting the rectified signal; a filtering circuit connected to the LED module, and configured to provide a filtered signal for the LED unit; and a protection circuit for providing protection for the LED tube lamp. The protection circuit includes a voltage divider comprising two elements connected in series between the first and second output terminals of the rectifying circuit, for producing a signal at a connection node between the two elements; and a control circuit coupled to the connection node between the two elements, for receiving, and detecting a state of, the signal at the connection node. The control circuit includes or is coupled to a switching circuit coupled to the rectifying circuit, and the switching circuit is configured to be triggered on or off by the detected state, upon the external driving signal being input to the LED tube lamp, to allow discontinuous current to flow through the LED unit. |
| US10208896B2 |
LED lighting device and lamp shade, and circuit preparation method thereof
An LED light device and a circuit preparation method thereof are provided. The LED light device includes a base, an LED light unit, and a lamp shade. The LED light-emitting unit and the lamp shade are arranged on the base. The lamp shade covers the LED light-emitting unit inside. The circuit preparation method includes following steps of: providing a base which is a physical entity having a three-dimensional structure on the surface thereof; coating a circuit layer on the base surface through a programmable coating equipment, manual coating or the combined mode, wherein the circuit layer is a liquid or powder coating containing metal materials, and the thickness of the circuit layer is 20 μm or more; baking the base coated with the circuit layer at the high temperature of 100-1,000° C. until the circuit layer is dried; and obtaining a base having a three-dimensional circuit after cooling. |
| US10208886B2 |
Heat-insulating container provided with vacuum heat-insulating material, vacuum heat-insulating material, and tanker provided with heat-insulating container
A heat-insulating container being used under an environment where exposure to water of liquid is possible, includes a container main body having a substance holding portion which holds a substance at a temperature which is lower than a normal temperature on the inside of the substance holding portion; and a heat-insulating structure body which is provided in the container main body and includes at least a vacuum heat-insulating material. In addition, the vacuum heat-insulating material includes an outer cover material and an inner member sealed in a tightly closed and decompressed state on an inside of the outer cover material. In addition, the inner member is configured of a material which does not generate hydrogen in a case of coming into contact with the moisture of the liquid. |
| US10208883B2 |
Pressure control apparatus
A pressure control apparatus includes a main line section and a branch line operably joined to and extending from the main line section. A housing around the branch line has a first wall and a second wall opposed to the first wall, and a first opening is in the first wall. A plug is operably positioned in the branch line, and the plug has a first position that prevents fluid flow through the branch line and a second position that permits fluid flow through the branch line. A loop extends from the plug, and a lever pivotally connected to the second wall and extending through the loop and the first opening in the first wall positions the plug to the first and second positions. |
| US10208879B2 |
Fluid connector assembly
The fluid connector assembly includes a connector body with an intermediate portion that extends between opposite end portions and has a first bore. The connector body has an elongated wall that projects outwardly from the intermediate portion and that surrounds a second bore which opens to the first bore. A flat tube, which is made of a second material that is different than the first material and has at least one fluid passage, is in fluid communication with the second bore of the connector body. The flat tube has generally flat side walls and is lockingly retained with the connector body by male and female locking structures that cooperate with one another. |
| US10208878B2 |
Joined body and method for producing joined body
A joined body 10 includes a ceramic body 12, a metal member 14, and a joint portion 15 that joins the ceramic body 12 and the metal member 14 together. The joint portion 15 includes a first joint layer 16 joined to the ceramic body 12 and a second joint layer 18 joined to the metal member 14. The first joint layer 16 is disposed on the ceramic body 12 side and contains an alloy that contains Fe and Cr as main components, and a compound having a thermal expansion coefficient of 4.0×10−6 (/° C.) or lower is dispersed in the first joint layer 16. The second joint layer 18 is disposed on the metal member 14 side, contains an alloy that contains Fe and Cr as main components, and has a larger thermal expansion coefficient than the first joint layer 16. |
| US10208874B2 |
Retaining clip
A retaining clip configured to secure an elongate member to a generally planar panel is described herein. The retaining clip includes a first side wall, a second side wall opposite the first side wall, and an end wall interconnecting the side walls. The side walls define a gap configured to receive the panel. The retaining clip includes further includes a resilient first cantilevered prong projecting into the gap from the first side wall and a resilient second cantilevered prong projecting from into the first gap from the second side wall. Free ends of the first and second prongs are characterized as having a pair of pointed barbs on distal edges of the first and second prongs. The pointed barbs are configured to increase a removal force required to remove the panel from the first gap. A method of forming such a retaining clip is also described. |
| US10208871B2 |
Bistable electric valve, particularly for a system for recovery of petrol vapours in a motor-vehicle
A bistable electric valve for a system that recovers petrol vapors in a motor vehicle. The electric valve includes a hollow housing (2) in which there is defined a chamber (5) with respective first and second openings (4a, 3a) between which a valve seat (6) is defined; an obturator (7) movable inside said chamber (5) and adapted to cooperate with the valve seat (6) for controlling a fluid flow between the openings (4a, 3a); a ferromagnetic core (17) mounted movably inside the housing (2) and connected to the obturator (7); first and second permanent magnets (11, 12) mounted in the housing (2) and adapted to keep the ferromagnetic core (17) in first and second working positions, respectively, in which the associated obturator (7) closes and opens the valve seat (6), respectively; and a control solenoid (9) adapted to generate a magnetic flux for attracting the core (17) towards either one of the said first and second working positions. The obturator (7) is displaceable with respect to the core (17), from and towards the valve seat (6), and the obturator (7) has an associated spring (30) tending to urge it towards the seat (6). |
| US10208870B1 |
Solenoid valve
A solenoid valve includes a coil housing, a coil barrel and an actuator. The coil barrel is mounted in the coil housing, is coiled with multiple coils, and has a valve gate formed on a bottom of the coil barrel. The actuator is moveably mounted in the coil barrel and has a piston, a magnetic shaft, a spring mounted between the piston and the magnetic shaft, and a sealing pad abutting the piston. The actuator is driven by the coils to move the piston. The piston has two notches being able to break a vacuum state, and can be pushed upward easily and efficiently to save electricity. |
| US10208867B2 |
Throttling device and refrigeration cycle
A throttling device is equipped with a valve seat in which a valve port for connecting a primary chamber and a secondary chamber is formed, a needle valve, a needle section which is inserted into the valve port, a guide section for guiding a slide shaft of the needle valve, and a coil spring for biasing the needle valve in a valve-closing direction. The guide section and the coil spring are positioned on the primary chamber side. The position of the needle valve in the valve-closing direction is restricted by a stopper section in a manner such that the minimum gap between the needle valve and the valve port is maintained. Furthermore, the needle valve is not seated on the valve seat. |
| US10208863B2 |
Pressure assisted connection for a valve shaft
A valve having a valve closure member in a valve housing is provided. The valve closure member has a shaft received within an aperture of the closure member and extending out of the housing. One or more locking apertures are formed between an inner surface of the aperture of the valve closure member and an outer surface of the shaft, the locking apertures being angled outward from an axis of the shaft and toward the interior end of the shaft. One or more locking members are inserted into and engage each of the locking apertures, the locking members securing the position of the shaft relative to the valve closure member such that rotation of the shaft rotates the valve closure member between an open position and a closed position and such that internal pressure from within the valve housing increases the engagement between the locking members and the locking apertures. |
| US10208858B2 |
Internal electronic park actuator
A parking pawl module includes a first actuator, a gearbox including at least one gear carrier where the at least one gear carrier supports a hub configured to rotate when the first actuator rotates, and a disconnect module. The disconnect module includes: an output coupler having a first surface and a second surface; an actuation feature disposed on the first surface; and a torsion spring having a first end connected to the output coupler and a second end connected to the hub or the at least one gear carrier. The disconnect module also includes an actuation mechanism disposed on the second surface of the output coupler. The actuation mechanism is configured to mesh with the hub. The first actuator controls movement of the at least one hub, the actuation feature, and the actuation mechanism. |
| US10208856B2 |
Pneumatic shifting-force assistance device
A pneumatic shifting force assistance device for a manual transmission is provided, comprising a housing structure having a compressed air inlet, ventilation, control rod, and an output unit comprising a working piston defining two pneumatic working chambers. A valve arrangement is provided between the control rod and output unit, bringing about a pneumatic sequential control from the outlet unit to the control rod by acting on the working chambers. The valve arrangement comprises two piston structures, two annular sealing edges, two valve slides which interact with the sealing edges, and two valve seats. At least one piston structure/valve slide pair is paired with a throttle device such that a throttle seal arranged on the output unit interacts with a throttle passage arranged on the corresponding valve slide or piston structure, where the effective cross-sectional area of the throttle passage depends on the position of the component within the throttle passage. |
| US10208853B2 |
Motor assembly
A motor assembly has an electric motor with a motor housing and an electronics unit. A first housing shell is formed as a motor carrier and has the motor housing fastened to it. A second housing shell is in the form of a cooling cover. An electronics carrier is arranged in sandwich-like fashion between the cooling cover and the motor carrier. The electronics carrier has, at the cooling cover side, a first, circumferentially encircling seal which seals off a first contact edge formed between the electronics carrier and the cooling cover and the electronics carrier has, at the motor carrier side, a second, circumferentially encircling seal which seals off a second contact edge formed between the electronics carrier and the motor carrier. |
| US10208852B2 |
Steering lever system for work vehicle
A steering lever system includes a pair of lever bodies, a pivotal body coupled to each of the lever bodies and a neutral position detector. The pivotal body includes a first boss portion and a second boss portion. The lever body is pivotable about a first pivot axis of the first boss portion from a neutral position to a neutral end position. The lever body is also pivotable about a second pivot axis of the second boss portion from a forward traveling end position through a neutral position to a reverse traveling end position. The neutral position detector is responsive to a detected portion provided in an auxiliary member fixed to the lever body, at the neutral end position of the lever body. The detected portion is offset from a pivotal locus of the lever body about the first pivot axis. |
| US10208850B1 |
Transmission case with integrated drain channel
A transmission includes a torque converter, an output shaft, rotatable gearing components, a case, and a pan secured to the case. The case defines a torque converter housing for receiving the torque converter, an output shaft housing for receiving the output shaft, and a central barrel extending between the torque converter housing and the output shaft housing for receiving the rotatable gearing components. The case further defines a first hole and a second hole through a bottom wall of the central barrel and a tapering channel extending longitudinally along the central barrel from the first hole to the second hole. The pan defines a fluid reservoir disposed below the first and second holes to receive gravity-fed fluid from the tapering channel through the first and second holes. |
| US10208848B2 |
Gear baffle
A fluid containing component is provided having a structure and a sump for storing a fluid. A gear baffle is disposed between the rotatable component and the structure. The gear baffle includes a first side end and a second side defining a gear cavity therebetween. The fluid displaced by rotation of a gear positioned within the gear baffle collects on inner surfaces of the gear baffle and is directed out of the gear baffle through at least one flow port of the baffle. |
| US10208844B2 |
Drive device
A drive device has a spindle drive having a threaded spindle and a spindle nut arranged on the threaded spindle. The spindle drive is configured to drive a first component element and a second component element so as to be axially movable relative to one another. The spindle drive is reversibly rotatably drivable around an axis of rotation extending coaxial to the threaded spindle by a rotatably driven driveshaft arranged in a housing so as to be fixed with respect to rotation. A brake device prevents axially relative movement of the first component element and second component element relative to one another through axial application of force to the first component element and/or second component element. |
| US10208840B2 |
Continuously variable transmission
Continuously variable transmissions (CVTs) having a plurality of balls, each ball having a bore through which a ball axle passes, are provided. In some aspects, the CVTs include first and second rings on either side and in contact with the plurality of balls, and an idler assembly including an idler having a non-uniform outer diameter. The profile of the idler ensures lubricant flows to a largest diameter of the non-uniform outer diameter, and lubricant sprays off the largest diameter to lubricate one or more components of the CVT. A lubrication system may include a scraper configured to remove lubricant that accumulates in an interior of the CVT. |
| US10208832B2 |
Centrifugal pendulum-type vibration absorbing device and designing method for the same
A centrifugal pendulum-type vibration absorbing device that includes a support that rotates together with any one of the rotary elements of the damper; and a mass that is supported by the support so as to oscillate freely, wherein the centrifugal pendulum-type vibration absorbing device is designed to have an effective order that is greater by at least a correction amount associated with the hysteresis of the damper than an order of vibration that is generated in the driving device to be damped. |
| US10208830B2 |
Hydraulic compression stop member for a hydraulic shock-absorber for a vehicle suspension with pressure relief device
The hydraulic stop member comprises: a cup-shaped body mounted in a compression chamber of the shock-absorber. A piston is mounted at an end of a rod of the shock-absorber so as to slide in the cup-shaped body when the shock-absorber is close to an end-of-travel position of the compression stroke. The cup-shaped body includes a side wall and a bottom wall which define, along with the piston, a working chamber where a damping fluid of the shock-absorber is compressed by the piston. A bypass conduit connects a working chamber with the portion of the compression chamber placed above a seal ring. A pressure relief valve keeps the bypass conduit closed as long as the pressure in the working chamber remains below a given threshold value and to open the bypass conduit, thereby allowing the discharge of the damping fluid from the working chamber to the compression chamber through the bypass conduit, when the pressure in the working chamber exceeds the threshold value. |
| US10208825B2 |
Anti-vibration device for vehicle
An anti-vibration device for a vehicle has a first torque rod assembly having a first rod with one end fixed to an engine and the other end fixed to a vehicle body, an inertial mass supported on the first rod, and an actuator that reciprocates the inertial mass in an axial direction of the first rod, and a second torque rod assembly having a second rod with one end fixed to the engine and the other end fixed to a sub-frame that is installed on the vehicle body via an elastic member. |
| US10208822B2 |
Smart braking devices, systems, and methods with signal conditioners
Various braking devices, systems, and methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, the braking device includes a support element, a block of friction material supported by the support element, at least one piezoceramic sensor supported by the support element and interposed between the block of friction material (and the support element, and a protective element located at the piezoceramic sensor and embedding the latter. The protective element can have one or more layers of resin-based material applied to protect the piezoceramic sensor and direct a predetermined part of the external compression force onto an area of the support element surrounding the piezoceramic sensor. In some embodiments, a signal transduction device is provided and includes at least one piezoceramic sensor supported on a support element and has an integral protective coating having properties of mechanical and temperature resistance. |
| US10208821B2 |
Disc brake with energizing ring
A disc assembly for a disc brake and energizing ring, or flywheel includes a disc brake disc, a braking band, a bell connecting the brake disc to a vehicle hub; and a connecting portion between the braking band and the bell. An energizing ring includes an energizing ring body having an energizing side, opposite the disc, and coupling side, facing the disc. An energizing ring connecting portion connects cantilevered to the bell to avoid interfering with the braking band and forms an end surface parallel to the radial direction. Projections and/or recesses are provided in the energizing side. A coupling portion cantilevers from the energizing ring body axially and includes a free end portion. The free end portion is received in the energizing ring connecting portion passing through the radial end surface. The energizing ring connecting portion closely surrounds the free end portion, leaving the energizing ring body free. |
| US10208817B2 |
Drawworks gearbox with redundant braking on input side
A drawworks gearbox includes additional braking on the input side of the gearbox to provide a redundant emergency brake and, optionally, a separate parking brake with the drum-side brakes being the emergency brake. An air-cooled brake disc is attached to a high speed coupling connected to the gearbox input pinion. A hydraulic-apply, spring-release brake is mounted to the gearbox housing at each pinion location and arranged to act on its respective disc. |
| US10208816B2 |
Anti-reverse rotation apparatuses, rotors for use therein, and related methods
This disclosure includes anti-reverse rotation apparatuses, rotors for use therein, and related methods. Some apparatuses include a stator defining an interior volume and one or more arcuate contact surfaces within the interior volume, and a rotor rotatably coupled to the stator and at least partially disposed within the interior volume, the rotor having a hub, two or more shoes, each pivotally coupled to the hub and extending between a first end and a second end that is farther from the hub than is the first end, wherein each of the shoes is rotatable relative to the hub between: (a) a first position in which the second end of the shoe contacts at least one of the arcuate contact surface(s) of the stator; and (b) a second position in which the second end of the shoe does not contact the arcuate contact surface(s) of the stator. |
| US10208813B2 |
One way wedge clutch with displaceable weight element to eliminate lockup in free-wheel mode
A one-way clutch including: a wedge plate including a first radially innermost circumference with a first plurality of ramps; an inner race including a first radially outermost circumference with a second plurality of ramps and arranged to receive torque and transmit the torque to the wedge plate in a lock-mode for the one-way clutch; and a weighting element engaged with the wedge plate. The weighting element is arranged to displace, in response to rotation of the inner race, to radially contract the wedge plate. |
| US10208811B2 |
Selectable one-way clutch having strut with separate armature
A selectable one-way clutch includes a clutch module and at least one electromagnetic actuator module. Each electromagnetic actuator module includes at least one electromagnetic actuator assembly having a coil assembly, a locking strut, and a connection member mechanically interconnected to the locking strut for moving it between released and deployed positions in response to energization of the coil assembly. |
| US10208806B2 |
Compliant safe joint and manufacturing method thereof
A compliant safe joint and manufacturing method thereof. The compliant safe joint includes an input axis circumferentially connected to a motor shaft of a DC motor; a movable bridge circumferentially mounted on the input axis and slidable along a axial direction of the input axis; multiple bearings, each of the multiple bearings having an inner ring fixed to the movable bridge and having an outer ring; a stationary bridge rotatably mounted on the movable bridge and having a helicoid surface, the outer ring of each bearing being movable along the helicoid surface; and a flexible component connected to the movable bridge. The stationary bridge rotates about the input axis when a torque which exceeds a predetermined threshold is applied to the stationary bridge by the motor shaft, such that the bearings move with respect to the helicoid surface to cause the flexible component to be compressed and extended through the movable bridge. |
| US10208801B1 |
Wheel hub seal
A wheel hub seal has an inner annular member. An outer side of the inner annular member is sleeved with an outer annular member. A passage is formed between the inner annular member and the outer annular member. An opening of the passage is provided with a second barrier. The second barrier has a fixed portion fixed to the outer annular member. The fixed portion extends toward the inner annular member to form a suspended flexible portion. An outer surface of the flexible portion is provided with a raised press portion. Thereby, when the wheel hub seal is mounted in a shaft hole of a hub, the press portion is compressed by the inner wall of the shaft hole to press the flexible portion to resiliently lean against the inner annular member to seal the passage, achieving the effect of blocking external silt. |
| US10208797B2 |
Tapered roller bearing
A tapered roller bearing includes: inner and outer rings; tapered rollers; and a retainer for the tapered rollers so as to prevent the rollers from being removed towards an outer diameter side. The inner ring has a small collar portion having a reduced diameter section neighboring an inner ring raceway. The reduced diameter section has an outer diameter surface of a diameter smaller than the remaining section of the small collar portion. An outer diameter of the remaining section of the small collar portion is larger than an inscribed circle diameter, and an outer diameter of the reduced diameter section is smaller than the inscribed circle diameter, which represents a diameter of a circle inscribed in the tapered rollers in an assembly of rollers and retainer, where the tapered rollers are retained by the retainer and the assembly has not been incorporated into the inner ring. |
| US10208795B2 |
Tapered roller bearing
A tapered roller bearing includes an inner ring, an outer ring, a plurality of tapered rollers provided in an annular space formed between the inner and outer rings and rolling on an inner raceway surface and an outer raceway surface, and an annular cage that holds the tapered rollers. The cage has a small annular portion positioned toward an axially first side with respect to the tapered rollers, a large annular portion positioned toward an axially second side with respect to the tapered rollers, and a plurality of cage bars that couples the small annular portion and the large annular portion together. A minute clearance is formed between the inner ring and the large annular portion and between the outer ring and the large annular portion, respectively. |
| US10208794B2 |
Water lubricated composite thrust bearing of nuclear main pump
A water lubricated composite thrust bearing of a nuclear main pump has a stainless steel base and an engineering plastic layer. The stainless steel base is provided with a concave-convex surface connected to the engineering plastic layer. The concave-convex surface and the engineering plastic layer are compositely molded by means of thermoplastic compound molding. A ratio of the area of the concave-convex surface to the area of an orthographic projection of the concave-convex surface on the stainless steel base ranges from 1.2 to 2. By means of the concave-convex surface and a specific bonding property obtained after fusion of a rough face and the engineering plastic layer, the concave-convex surface is bonded with the engineering plastic layer, thereby forming a reliable composite thrust bearing that is physically connected onto a whole. |
| US10208787B2 |
Fusible member intended to join two yokes to form a hinge
The invention relates to a tubular fusible member (21) extending along a longitudinal axis (AL) and for engaging in a two-lug clevis (14) and a single-lug clevis (12) in order to form a hinge (11). According to the invention, the fusible member (21) is constrained in rotation with one of the clevises (12, 14), and it presents a cross-section of shape that varies gradually between a central section and two distal sections, each distal section having reinforced thickness in its regions that extend parallel to the bending plane (PF) in which the fusible member (21) bends when it is stressed, the central section having a second moment of area relative to an axis normal to the bending plane (PF) that is greater than the second moment of area of the distal sections. |
| US10208785B2 |
Stay tight threaded fasteners
A male fastener, female fastener, and a plunger that is adapted to secure the female fastener to the male fastener, and to prevent unwanted loosening of the female fastener from the male fastener. The male fastener includes a shaft that may optionally include a plurality of protruding elements that extend outwardly from an external surface of the shaft. The protruding elements may be radially positioned in rows around a circumference of the shaft, to create a channel between the rows of protruding elements. The channel is adapted to receive a corresponding thread located within an aperture of the female fastener. The plunger is adapted to be inserted into a trench located between a set of protruding elements (or into multiple trenches located between multiple protruding elements). The plunger prevents the female fastener from rotating around the shaft in a direction towards the bottom portion of the male fastener. |